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27
Inserenda
Amplification
It is inconceivable the effect this has in fascinating leading astray
the judgment and corrupting the taste
of the younger class of students readers. The notion conception
they form to themselves of the personages thus
gorgeously arrayed, is of a kind of being,
separated from and elevated above the ordinary
race of mortals. This sort of colouring being
more properly laid upon the object as it is
of higher antiquity, hence the pupil learns to
proportion his respect to them in a ratio according to a rule
that which is reverse of the rational one. Wisdom is
the fruit of experience. Experience accumulates with age. The natural course
of things therefore (unless impeded turned by violent
and extraordinary⊞ ⊞ revolutions of which the press has barred for ever the return (violence of a sort that has
once appeared but it is impossible should ever
more return) is for the world to advance increase in wisdom as it advances comes on in ages. Upon tracing
the history of any country backwards, we fine our
This is directly contrary in opposition to the end a man
should propose to himself in every deducted
treatise, especially in on a ha subject of this
importance, which is to convey clear and adequate
ideas of the every subjects (he comes to touch
upon.)
Inserenda 27
Identifier: | JB/028/026/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
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