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18 Apr 1815
Chrest. [Pencil Note} Partial branches
{Pencil Note} 7 Geometry Verbal Simply to understand a general position
thus delivered
in general terms, is
much easier to a learner than
from the individual
exemplification to
frame, by abstraction and
generalization the
By such a mode of expression or designationif it be supposed that no other more
general mode is ever added or substituted to it,
By such a mode expression, supposing no other more general <add>made over</add> added or substituted to it of designation what general knowledgeideas-.
what practically applicable instruction - would be conveyed?
Answer.- Surely not any. For renderrendering the proposition
susceptible of conveying any such instruction, what
would be the course necessary to be pursued? Answer.
Toadd or substitute substitute this and diagrammatical and individualizing
marginal<hi rend="underline"></hi>individualizing
marginal mode of expression or designation, the purely verbal, and
thence general, mode of expression or designation here in the first place
brought to view. Here then, before any real acquisition
that must in the way of science can be made - here is an <add>additionaloperation</add> be performed: an additional operation requiring much [+] [+] greater existence of
mind to perform it
much evidentas well as a much
greater strength and
maturity of mind to be
able to able to perform it, than the
original one.
This mode general mode of expression or designation, which [+]2 in the [+]2 to the purpose of
useful and practically
applicable
intellection, will
case of the enliation as above explained, be acknowledged to be {Pencil Notes} -Spdent general proposition
meant to be
conveyed by it, and
thereupon conceived and
retained
case the ked proposition will, at least to a very considerable
extent, be acknowledged to be ing absolutely necessary
may be useful and practically applicable {Pencil Notes} 15 That mode of designation
which in the
ease of concentration
will, it is hoped, in the case of the other two parts
of the proposition be acknowledged to be at least useful:
useful, viz. in the supposition of its being practical and that it is
practicable, inhath, as above, been already proved by repeated experience,
and this without of unsurmounted difficulty {Pencil Notes} part will thus be
acknowledged to be
necessary, applied
to those other
it fail if been
useful: viz. supposing
it practicable which
to a considerable extent
it has, as above
been proved
been proved to be
without any contrary experience to oppose it.
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