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Experimenting

Rule of perseverance - its importance

From p.118 5 45
Whatever experiments be instituted, and whatever
plan for pursuing instituting them be pursued, perseverance there
is one object is a rule, quality the importance of which can not be too strongly inculcated.
I mean that of perseverance. It is to no purpose
to order an experiment to be made if provision be not
made for it's their being properly conducted proper provision
be not made for pursuing it them to a conclusion, and
making a practical use of the knowledge afforded
by the result. It is even attended with two very
bad effects; the one relative to the particular experiment
in question: the other relative to experimental
knowledge in general. When a project of any kind for instance
has after having been set on foot and then abandoned has afterwards through heedlessness
or indifferenece been abandoned, the chance
of it's ever succeeding is render'd much less than it was before.
The want of success though it should have been
owing solely to the fault of those who had the
conduct of the project, is placed to the account
of the project itself; and it is added to the list
of those which having have been tried and found
to fail. This is not to be wonderd at: since the
fact of it's failure is a simple fact easily
understood apprehended and retained by every body
whereas the causes of it are of a more complicated & perhaps a more disputable
nature: nor is every man who happens
to hear of the effect in a way either to be informed
of, or to form a judgment on, the causes. The

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	46, 6, 14-15
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	board of shipbuilding plan method of forming lists
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56826
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