Political fallacies form the subject of this work -- Classification of political fallacies -- Use of this enquiry : remedial measures proposed -- Hobgoblin-crier's, or Jacobin-crier's, or innovation-crier's, argument -- What's at the bottom? : Or the Devil's-behind argument -- Official-malefactor-screening maxim : Attack us, you attack the government -- Accusation-scarer's, or accuser-scarer's, or escape-and-innocence-confounder's, device : or non-success and calumny-confounder's device : infamy must attach somewhere -- Fallacies addressed to men's self-distrust : general view of them -- Authority-worshipper's, or blind-confidence-preacher's, device or argument -- Ancestor-worshipper's argument : or Chinese argument : or argument in the Chinese taste -- No-precedent argument -- Importance-and-difficulty-trumpeter's argument -- Browbeating-incapacity-confessor's, browbeating-ignoramus', or self-stultifier's, argument -- Paradox-brandisher's device -- Vaguely-insulting-vituperator's argument -- Anti-rational fallacies in general : their character -- Practical-man's, or blind-horse's, or thought-condemner's, or reason-abjurer's argument -- Impracticability-crier's argument -- Popular-corruption-pleader's argument -- Excellence-hater's, or excellence-abhorrer's, or perfectibility-denier's device -- Self-contradicting-no-thinker's argument -- Posterity-chainer's device or argument or fallacy -- Jephtha's-vow-pleading, or oath-abusing-posterity-chainer's device -- Allegorical-personage-worshipper's, or allegorical-personage-trumpeter's, device -- All-hush-without-doors, or nobody-grumbles, argument -- Anti-preventionalist's, or suffer-first, argument -- Vicarious-relief-preacher's argument -- Procrastination-preacher's argument -- Graduality-preacher's, or snail's-pace-preacher's, advice or device -- Of the fallacies of this class conjunctively considered -- Laudable-motive-trumpeter's argument -- Laudable-design-trumpeter's argument -- Laudable-character-trumpeter's argument -- Consistency-trumpeter's argument -- Inbred-laudable-disposition-trumpeter's argument -- Laudable-connection-trumpeter's argument -- Good-name-bestower's, or puffing-godfather's, argument -- Human-idol-trumpeter's, or deified-dead-man-trumpeter's, argument -- Self-trumpeter's fallacy -- Question-begging-denomination-employer's device, or eulogistic-and-dyslogistic-appellative-employer's device, or laudatory-and-vituperative-appellation-employer's device -- Partiality-preacher's maxim or device -- Atrocity-justifier's argument -- Logical-high-flier's, or logical-cloud-climber's, or lumping-classifier's, or distinction-excluder's, or distinction-eluder's, fallacy -- Sham-distinguisher's device -- Cause-and-obstacle-confounder's device -- Bar-vice-amendment-urging fallacy -- Diversion-creator's device -- General-rule-strainer's device -- Opposer-general's or defender-general's argument -- The blind-deaf-and dumb-man-aper's device -- Blind-place abhorrer's cry -- Blind-job-denouncer's cry -- Of political fallacies in general -- Causes and uses of the utterance of these fallacies -- Posterity-chainer's device or immutable-law-pleader's device -- Personalities of the vituperative cast -- Personalities laudatory -- Lumping-classifier's device -- Cloud-climber's or logical-high-flier's defice -- Logical-high-flyer's or creafty-generalizer's device, or distinction-confounder's device, or corruption-cloaker's device -- Opposer general's justification -- Place-abhorrer's cry -- Job-denouncer's cry.