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have found for it, holds good in with respect of to one
as much as to another. In this method of proceeding,
which our Author very consistently
adheres to, he knows very well what he is about.
He who teaches abstruse things so as to
make them understand, indeed satisfied
with themselves but To teach abstruse
things or that to be understood
and yet so as the There are two ways, he
knows, of teaching things that are science that is abstruse: one is to make them teach
them it so as to make them it understood, and being
understood, not long to be abstruse. This
is difficult; and what a man gains by it, is to
make his hearers satisfied with themselves. The
other way is, so to teach them it as to leave them it
unintelligible; yet so to manage, as that their the
prof hearers should attribute their not understanding
rather to their own unfitness to learn, or that of
the subject as science to be taught, than that of the Professor
to teach: which the a notion there are apt enough
to entertain, considering that it requires knowlege
which by the supposition they have not got, to
cure them of it.⊞ ⊞ All that is necessary
then, is to treat
them with a few
glittering shewy phrases
or two to carry off, as
Nurses do children
with a painted
fiddle or a gilt
gingerbread watch
to let them shew
they have not been
to the fair for nothing. This way is much the easier
(and most practised) of the two: and what a man the Professor gets by it, is to
make them worshippers of him the Professor.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::sect. [ ] interpretation]]
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / b26 / f27 / b28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	9350
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