Excerpt from Forensic Facts and Fallacies: A Popular Consideration of Some Legal Points and Principles Some legal fallacies are harmless enough; others merely cause inconvenience to the indi viduals who cherish them; while a few, and these are the most important, affect public opinion on questions of political importance, and give rise to agitations of a more or less mischievous tendency. A man is of course at liberty to knock his head against a stone wall if he pleases, and if he suffers for his folly, we may deplore his ignorance, but we cannot much regret his dis couragement. To avert such wisely ordered consequences, few of us would feel called upon to interfere. But it is otherwise when such an individual induces others to share his error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.