The utter lack of cogency may be illustrated thus:
O'Neill only became a famous, rich athlete while scoring with every groupie he could. Then he fell in love, got married, and settled down, and now where is he? Out of sports, a has- been, with an auto franchise in Westchester, New York.
See, scoring with the chicks had nothing to do with his success as an athlete, and settling down had had nothing to do with his retirement. Similarly, you have to make a case that mercantilism was good for Britain, and free- trade was bad, you cannot merely make portentous associations...... |
