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23 April 1815
Chrest: Tab:II Particular branches
Geometry
1. Purely verbal
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Cause of the
omission - Deference
to authority, and
custom. Euclid
never expressed the
purely verbal mode
beyond the circulative
part. Nor any
other institutionalist.

To H.Th. and T.Nh. Quere whither to
insert this page?

In regard to this deficiency the gap in the
mass of requisite instruction, ask for the reason (the
cause or a reason) of its existence if, by the word reason be meant
a production cause having its root a source in the effectual nature of the
subject, no such reason will be to be formed. But
if by the word reason be meant, a cause having
its source or root in the nature of the human mind
there is nothing in it but what, in every part of
this field of thought and action, lies constantly under
our eyes.

Authority and habit by in these two words, in
every part of the field to so far as sinister interest
is out of the question may be seen the cause of all
deficiencies in the system of instruction, for the applying
of which time have not been which, (time not
for the operation not having been wanting) continue
unsupplied. Authority, viz the authority of
great names: habit, the habit on embracing to
travel without reflection, in the mannertrack in which,
with or without reflection, men have begun or continue
to acttravel already.

In the use of general terms for giving expression
to the correspondant general relations, between the correspondent
sorts of figures and parts of figures, Euclid -the
great Euclid - the father of Geometry - went not beyond
the collection of words, expressive of the purely enuntiative part of the discourse called abare proposition
on: for the demonstrative part and preparatory part as use in doing, that
which, in the eyes of as use
what the father of
the , was was not
thought not fit, or
at least not necessary,
to be done
he left it to the learner, to deduce the general ideas, from
the individual objects, presented by the individual diagram, in company with the
words, of which, by the reference made to it, athe import was in like
manner individualized. Can there be any need of doing, or so much as

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Identifier: | JB/018/023/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-04-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	21
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	023	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to hk [ie koe] and jm [ie mill] quere whether to insert this page?" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	6432
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