"There is, I conceive, no point in which the idea of dishonest artifice is in most people's minds so intimately associated with that of Rhetoric, as the address to the Feelings or Active Principles of our nature. This is usually stigmatized as "an appeal to the Passions instead of the Reason;" as if Reason alone could ever influence the Will, and operate as a motive, which it no more can, than the eyes, which show a man his road, can enable him to move from place to place; or than a ship provided with a compass, can sail without a wind."
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Part II, Ch. I, § 2, p. 180
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Richard Whately
Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was English logician and theological writer, and served as archbishop of Dublin.
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