1819 Aug. 16

Fallacies

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Ch. Logical

5 §.2. Exposure

Order

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been mentioned already as being commonly employed as cloaks one of them presents a claim to special notice, in respect of the peculiar nature of the foul /a special/ spot, to which it is peculiarly adapted /in a peculiar degree/ to serve as a covering.

The cloak in question is /composed/ the word Order: the foul spot it is in so peculiar a degree adapted to the purpose of covering is tyranny

At first sight other words may present themselves as being in an equal degree capable of being employed as claoks for the same foul spot: namely Law, and Government. 1[?] But for the covering of a spot so preeminently foul, the most cloudy appellative that can be found - the appellative of which the import is most loose and indeterminate and lax is manifestly preferrable to every other. Now[?] Order is more extensive than Law or even than Government: for the works of law[?] we have no others than laws: to the extension of such measures or arrangement of government as do not some under that denomination: and if /when[?]. measures or arrangements of government are spoken of, the word government may be apt to present itself as putting an exclusion upon the idea of laws: as meant to bring to view such measures or arrangements of government as are not laws