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B.1. Ch.6
classifications which I have before mentioned under
the to name denominated a logical apparatus.
It is, as has been observed it has been said to me this is
merely the scaffolding which & ought to be removed when
the building is completed. But why should it be
regarded of the author to conceal from the his the
reader the instruments he has made use of the author has employed?
Why to Why hide from them the process of analysis and
the progressive steps of invention? The tables are a
machines for generating ideas organum cogitativum.
The author reveals to yo his secret: necessary he makes you the
him through in his labours companion of his labours: to thinking men in the
hands of thinking men he puts the thread that
has guided him in his researches; & places
them in a condition to pursue them still further
& to re res verify them their accuracy. Strange cir imputation!
It is the extent of the service then that diminishes destroys
its value.
I am not so ignorant that in making
use of an aly the analytic method as a mystic
doctrine, in concealing, if I may so express myself,
the anatomy, the muscles, & the nerves, much may
be gained great credit would be to might be gained in
respect of facility & brilliancy. In pennning the
analytic method, every thing is foretold; nothing
comes in there are no surprises it leaves nothing
little work is left for the expectation: the whole is
luminous; but no surprises, no flashes flights of the
imagination, no flashes of genius which dazzle
for the meme one moment & the next & leave you in
utter darkness. An go Great courage is required
for the pursuing a method consistently steadily
to pursue a method to rigid a method: but
it is the only one that can ever afford complete
satisfaction to the understanding.
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