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1828 Sept 18
Law Amendment
So, it is true, may a rule. But not witho but
in a form comparatively embarrassing and inconvenient.
To satisfy yourself of this you need but This, any person may satisfy himself of by employing taking in hand
with it any sentence in which a principle has
place, and instead of the principle employing
the corresponding rule.
Into The Upon occasion Into any one sentence principles in
any number may be inserted: and the greater the number,
the more manifest will stronger will be the impression
of the embarrassment saved by the substitution
of the principles to the rules.
A principle, as above is no more than a
single term. But that term may as well be composite as single a compound of
two or more words. Of these words one must be a
noun substantive: the other must be either a noun
adjective or a participle: including under the appellation
of a noun adjective, a noun substantive employed
in that character in the mode which is so happily in use
in the English language, and gives it in comparison
of every language in which this mode is not in use
a most eminently and incontestably useful advantage.
By an axiom nothing more is meant than a sort of Rule
of which by certain properties the conjunction combination character of which is
peculiar to it the usefulness is preeminent in comparison
of other rules. These properties are
1. Incontestableness.
2. Comprehensiveness.
3. Clearness.
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