ABSTRACT
Of Anarchical Fallacies, one of the most natural modifications is that which is called begging the question the abuse of making the abstract proposition resorted to for proof, a lever for introducing, in the company of other propositions that are nothing to the purpose, the very proposition which is admitted to stand in need of proof. The revolution, which threw the government into the hands of the penners and adopters of this declaration, having been the effect of insurrection, the grand object evidently, is to justify the cause. The great enemies of public peace are the selfish and dissocial passions: necessary as they are the one to the very existence of each individual, the other to his security. In a body of laws especially of laws given as constitutional and fundamental ones an improper word may be a national calamity: and civil war may be the consequence of it.
