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I fear that in the face of duty we are big children, and, when that is the theme, seek subterfuges to distract us. The first sophism consists in asking ourselves if there is such a thing as duty in the abstract, or if this word does not cover one of the numerous illusions of our forefathers. For duty, in truth, supposes liberty, and the question of liberty leads us into metaphysics.
You seem not to remember, that all your reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity be a gross sophism; since it is impossible for you to know anything of the cause, but what you have antecedently, not inferred, but discovered to the full, in the effect.
In the question we have treated, each sophism has, doubtless, its own set form, and its own range, but all have one common root, which is, "forgetfulness of the interests of man, insomuch as they forget the interests of consumers."
The sophism which I am here combating will not stand the test of progression, which is the touchstone of principles. If, when every compensation is made, and all interests satisfied, there is a national profit in increasing the army, why not enrol under its banners the entire male population of the country? III. Taxes.
We merely add a single observation which appears to us of some importance. The writer who said: "Everything is true, and everything is false," announced a fact which the human intellect, naturally prone to sophism, interprets as it chooses, but it really seems as though human affairs have as many facets as there are minds that contemplate them.
Julian very quietly tore the miserable sophism to shreds, and said, "There is but one way to describe these vices, Hazlet, they are deadly, bitter, ruinous." "Oh, they are very common. Lots of men " "Tush!" said Julian; "their commonness, if indeed it be so, does not diminish their deadliness.
Every such government is founded on the assumption that man is God, which is a great mistake is, in fact, the fundamental sophism which underlies every error and every sin. The divine origin of government, in the sense asserted by Christian theologians, is never found distinctly set forth in the political writings of the ancient Greek and Roman writers.
Evidently the Germans are the last people in the world to be trusted with the task. They are as short-sighted morally as physically. What is their sophism of "necessity" but an inability to imagine tomorrow morning? What is their non-reciprocity but an inability to imagine, not a god or devil, but merely another man? Are these to judge mankind?
The French, or imperial system, which excludes the extremes, instead of uniting them, denies all opposites, instead of conciliating them denies the distinctions in the model, and copies only the unity, which is the supreme sophism called pantheism.
And yet I have heard the miserable sophism of unprincipled power against which it was directed a sophism so insulting to the dignity of honest poverty a thousand times repeated. Supper over, the family circle widened round the hearth; and the old man, taking down a large clasped Bible, seated himself beside the iron lamp which now lighted the apartment.
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