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26 May 1811 11
Fallacies
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Ch. Authority
§.3.III
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In general d in civilization in a given country is as rendered
of the time i.e. deficiency on the ground
accumulated information under the head of experience
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Civilization being
commonly understood
to include probity
and intelligence,
and is but instance
retaining
experience experience- for the
production of it
hence generally
degree of civilization
is inversely as the
of the time
in greater from the
present time
Under the term head compound head of degree of civilization
Under the denomination By the term of civilization, intelligence and
probity are commonly brought to view seem commonly to be meant intended to be in conjunction:
under the term encrease of civilization, encrease in respect
of both these endowments.
Improvement In every line of action, inclination,
improvement inclination — requiring [experience] for
the production of it [experience], and in so far as
the experience comes actually to be transmitted from hand to hand, and
generation to generation age to age improvement being thought and the necessary,
the natural result of experience?, the degree of
civilization may in any past age be set down
as being inversely as its in the inverse ratio to distance from the present
But in so far as by or by accidental times of violence causes
the fruit of experience is liable to be destroyed,
it may happen that exceptions are will be presented to this rule
16 or 10
Not but that this rule
is liable to fail:
viz case of times
for any great
interval of time,
it happens to the
fruit of experience
to be lost.
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