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18 Apr. 1815
Chrest. Tab. II

What is here meant is – not that no such fictions
ought to be employed – but that to the purpose and on the
occasion of instruction, in so far as wherever they are employed
the necessity or the use of them should be made
known.

1. To say that, in discourse fictitious language ought
never to be on no occasion employed would be as much to say that no discourse
in which the subject of which the operations other phænomenon or affections
of the mind were included ought ever to be held: for
no ideas ever being ever to be found in it which have not
their origin in sense, matter it will be found is the only direct subject
of any portion of verbal discourse:⊞ ⊞ for on the occasion, and for the purpose of the discourse, the mind is all along considered and spoken of as if it were a mass of matter, and it is only
in the way of fiction that when applied to any
operation or affection of the mind any thing that is said
is either true or false.

2. Yet in so far as any such fictions are employed
the necessity of them if as in the case just mentioned, necessary
the necessity or the use of them if simply useful
should be made known. Why? In the first place
to prevent that perplexity confusion which is paid has place
in the mind in so far as truth and falshood being
confounded that which is not true is supposed to be taken as
true: in the next place, to just alleviate the labour burthen
upon him by by shewing the learner
by putting it as far as possible in the power of the
learner to perceive and understand the use and
value of the as well as the nature of the instruction
communicated to him, to alleviate lighten the burthen
of the labour necessary to be employed in the acquisition
of it.

Identifier: | JB/018/093/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	21-22, or 23
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d15 / e13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	6502
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