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1831 June 4
Posology

Introduction
§ Euclid's erroneous course

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Euclid — he had had his predecessors — he has had
and continues to have his followers — But for shortness,
by this one name, the whole race may henceforward be
designated

In the career he had entered upon pursued, the
very first step taken by him, being in a wrong direction:
a direction the very reverse of that of the truth, every secondary
step led him but so much further from the truth

Of all the assertions made by him, the very first
was false. There exists (says he) a sort of a thing which has
no parts: the name of it is — a point —
Now this is not true: there exists not any such thing any
where: there exists not any where by itself any thing
which has not any parts. To no man is there or ever has
been to whose senses any such thing have ever presented
itself: and to no man has any idea presented itself
through any other medium than that of his senses — one
or more of them. ☞ Speak then of atoms in text or Notes

When he came out with this assertion, little
did Euclid the illustrious Greek think that he was running counter to a truth
which — a great — a most instructive and corrective truth,
which was destined to be revealed so many centuries thereafter
by an Englishman of the name of Locke.

Little did he think that the very first assertion
made by him was a false one: that in giving utterance to it
he was giving utterance to a falshood: to a falshood — that
is to say to a physical falshood to a falshood in the physical
sense: not assuredly to a falshood in what has been called an
ethical or say moral sense: a falshood false assertion in regard to which,
while
while uttering it, he
was evidence of its being
false. He Before he
began calling entered upon the utterance
of it, he had regarded
it as true, and in
so doing had deceived
himself: and only in consequence of his having, and so far as he had deceived himself, how he ever deceived others.

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Date_1	1831-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	135	Main Headings	posology
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