POPULAR FALLACIES.
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Charles Lamb in his essays Of "Elia," has
an excellent article on popular Fallacies," as
contained in number of popular maxims. Thus
of the maxim, 'That ill-gotten gain never pros
pers" he says:


"The weakest part of mankind have this say
ing commonest in their mouth 1t is the trlte
consolation administered to the easy dupe, when
he has been tricked out of his money or estate,
that the acquisition of it will do the owner no
good But the rogues of this world-the pru
denter part Of them, at least know better; and if
the observation had been as true as it is old, they
would not have failed by this time to have dis
covered it. They have pretty sharp distinctions
Of the fluctuating and permanent. Lightly
come, light CO. Is a proverb, which they can
very well afford to leave, when they have little
else, TO the losers. They do not find that all
gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief's
hand that grasps it. Church land, alienated to
lay uses, was formerly denounced to have this
slippery quality. But some portions of it always
stuck SO fast, that the denunciators have been
fain to postpone the prophecy Of refnndment to a
late posterity."