The Book of Fallacies

杰里米·边沁

语言:

英语

状态:

Complete work

作者归属:

Written by the author

iis.< ^ vi^« ^mm>: GIFT OF SEELEY W. MUDD and GEORGE I. COCHRAN MEYER ELSASSER DR. JOHN R. HAYNES WILLIAM L. HONNOLD JAMES R. MARTIN MRS. JOSEPH F. SARTORI to the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN BRANCH WNIVtftSl/r OF HA/ifAD.. AMQELES. CALIF 1_ THE BOOK OF FALLACIES: UNFINISHED PAPERS JEREMY ^ENTHAM. BY A FRIEND. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN AND H. L. HUNT, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. LONDON: PRINTED BY HICHARD TAYLOR, SHOE-LANE. *ZiaS.B YFIiA.UMAM e JP EDITOR'S PREFACE. The substance of this treatise, drawn up from the most unfinished of all Mr. Bent- ham^s Manuscripts, has already been pub- lished in French by M. Dumont; and con- sidering the very extensive diffusion of that tongue, the present work, but for one con- sideration, might seem almost superfluous. The original papers contain many appli- cations of the writer's principles to British Institutions and British interests ; which, with a view to continental circulation, have been judiciously omitted by M. Dumont. To the English Reader, the matter thus omitted cannot but be highly important and a2 iv EDITOR S PREFACE. To the English Reader, the matter thus omitted cannot but be highly important and a2 iv EDITOR S PREFACE. instructive. With the view of enabling him to supply the deficiency, and to obtain sepa- rately a treatise of general importance, which in the French work has somewhat unfortu- nately been appended to one of more limited interest, — namely, that, on the mode of con- ducting business in Legislative Assemblies, — the Editor has made the present attempt. To have done justice to the original mat- ter, the whole ought to have been re-written ; this, the Editor's other pursuits did not allow him leisure to

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