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Meliora:

A Quarterly Review

OF

Social Science

IN ITS

Ethical, Economical, Political, and Ameliorative
Aspects.

VOL VII.

'MELIORA VIDEO PROBOQUE.'

OVID, lib. vii. fab. i. 20.

TROI

LONDON

S. W. PARTRIDGE, 9, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1865.

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Meliora.

ART. I.-CULTURE AND TRADE.

1. The Friend: A Series of Essays to aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, &c. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3 Vols. London: 1818. 2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. By Sir Wm. Hamilton, Bart. Edited by Rev. H. L. Mansel, B.D., LL.D., and John Veitch, M.A. Lecture I., Philosophy, its Absolute Utility. (a) Subjective. II. (b) Objective. Second Edition. Blackwood and Sons: 1861.

3. Principles of Political Economy, with some of their Applica tions to Social Philosophy. By John Stuart Mill. 2 Vols. Fifth Edition. London: Parker, Son, and

Bourn 1852.

4. Utilitarianism. By John Stuart Mill.

'Fraser's Magazine.'

Bourn: 1862.

FALL

Reprinted from

London: Parker, Son, and

ALLACIES live long and die slowly. One can never be certain, indeed, when a fallacy is dead. A lie, it is said, has no legs; but, certainly, a fallacy would be better if it had, since it manages to wriggle about like an ecl long after it has been completely skinned, and contrives to restore itself, joint by joint, like the tape-worm, if only its head remain intact. But, of all fallacies, those growing out of any conceived dissimilarity live longest, deceive most, and die hardest. Pronounce any two things to be incompatible, socially, mentally, or morally, and you have uttered one of those charm-words, common to most languages, which either silence or forbid dispute, and preserve a fallacy from one age to another as amber does an insect, and limestone an animal. It matters little, indeed, whether the potent spell has been thus directly thrown over any two things by a strong individual mind, or indirectly by a gradual growth in the associations of many, since all men are so disposed to think after each other that the result is the same in either case. The world is full of these bisections, and they contract a certain consecrated power in passing from Vol. 7.-No. 25.

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