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of the prodigious extent to which these collateral adjuncts
are in use to operate in the character of instruments of
delusn. & deceptn. especially in the houses of interested deceivers,
an operatn. that to his view promised to be a useful one
was the out & as it were of the
characteristic difference between the three classes by
means of which appropriate denominns.. Accordingly
for the designatn. of the case in which to the idea of
desire, the idea of disapprobation as existing in
the mind of him who is speaking of it is attached,
he employed the epithet dyslogistic; as a synonym
he might have added disapprobative: and for the
designation of the case in which to the idea of desire the idea
of approbation as existing in the mind of him who is
speaking of it is attached, he employed the epithet eulogistic;
as a synonym he might have added approbative.

14.
JB & Lord Bacon;
fiat experimentum
Lord Bacon's aphorism
in physical science.
Fiat observatio JB's
aphorism in political
science.
On his entrance into the moral including the
political branch of art & science, he found it in much the
same condition as that in whh. Lord Bacon found
the physical. The matter of what was called the science
was composed of a more or less copious advantage of
words: and the instruction afforded, such as it was,
consisted principally, if not exclusively, in conveying
intimation of the relation borne by the import of one those
words to the import of another. Fiat experimentum was
the aphorism of Lord Bacon: and by this one direction,
that philosopher was regarded and with truth as having done
more toward the advancement of that branch of art &
science than had been done by all that had gone before
him. Fiat observatio was the aphorism of Mr.
Bentham: for observatio not experimentum was the
appropriate word here. The phenomena of the
material world not only as they presented themselves but also as
they could be made to present themselves together with the
relations in the way of cause & effect that appeared to have
place between them might without reserve, so as inquiry
to persons and things were avoided be taken for subjects of experiment
as well as observation when applied to the material world:
in the case of moral & political science the proper subject-
matter of observatn. were pains & pleass. as they respectively
resulted from the several modifications of which human
conduct or say agency is susceptible. Without reserve these

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