Add that the times have and still need its moral steadying. Every age seems to its own thoughtful people to lack moral steadiness, and they tend to compare it with other ages which look steadier. That is a virtually invariable opinion of such men. The comparison with other ages is generally fallacious, yet the fact is real for each age. Many things tend in this age to unsettle moral solidity. Some of them are peculiar to this time, others are not. But one of the great influences which the Bible is perpetually tending to counteract is stated in best terms in an experience of Henry M. Stanley.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
If that be true, how much more correct is the contention that great social abuses will and must influence different minds and temperaments in a different way. And how utterly fallacious the stereotyped notion that the teachings of Anarchism, or certain exponents of these teachings, are responsible for the acts of political violence.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
The revelation may be true, or it may be fallacious (I do not prejudge it); but there it is--the beginning of that long series of human evolutions which we call Religion.英文原著 · 《Pagan and Christian Creeds》
By seeing every good therein exults
The sainted soul, which the fallacious world
Makes manifest to him who listeneth well;英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
There by that execrable race was I
Released from bonds of the fallacious world,
The love of which defileth many souls,英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
And he to me: "My writing is explicit,
And not fallacious is the hope of these,
If with sane intellect 'tis well regarded;英文原著 · 《Purgatorio》