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Of all truths relating to phenomena, the most valuable to us are those liich nlatc to the order of their succession. On a knowledge of these is founded every reasonable anticipation of future facts, and whatever power we possess of influencing those facts to our advantage. Even the laws of geometry are cliiefly of practical importance to us as being a portion of the premises from which the order of the succession of phenomena may be inferred. John Stuart Mill. Begun in the autumn of the year 1845, without the cognizance, or at the suggestion of a single human being, the present Translation is due to the fact of its original having encountered a somewhat kindred spirit, and aroused therein the desire to render others participant, if possible, in the la Vge amount of instruction it is so well calculated to afford. And now that the work is done, what remains for the labourer at second-hand to say by way of preamble to his newly-dressed wares? Had the book been printed within the pale of a philosophical or physico-theological sect, the Translator sfinal duty would have been clearly enough prescribed. Already bound to the profession of particular tenets, his main object would be to indulge in a laudatory but servile abstract of his authors doctrines, or, if having set out with the expressed intention of illustrating their bearings upon the state of science past, present, and to come, he would become so drunk beforehand with the large and unbridled potation of his creed, as to surprise the casual reader by informing him that such an intention is useless, for the two stand in direct antithesis to each other. Examples of this mode of procedure are not wanting at the present day, whether at home or abroad. They are the produce of that spirit, which, rife enough in the Middle A ges, has been so graphically described by Pro ssor Whewell under the title of the Commentat
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- ÉditeurAndesite Press
- Date d'édition2015
- ISBN 10 1298557305
- ISBN 13 9781298557308
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages690
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