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1820 June 26 Jun 1831 May 3. 27 M 13 Posology Alegomorphic

Theoretic and Practical Posology in general 55 §. Collateral Use Collateral Use

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3 By application of the mind to this branch, the hold of at is supposed to be acquired

A sort of collateral advantage use not uncommonly ascribed to posology is — the increasing the aptitude of the mind as the exercise of the faculty of ratiocination in its application to other subjects — in a word to all other subjects in general and accordingly in particular to the moral including the political and the religious branches of art and science.

But the more closely the peculiar nature of the case is attended to, the more closely it will clear will be the thoughts that in this way it is not of any use characteristic

Towards that end True it is — the one thing it does: almost is the enuring the mind to the habit of close attention. But in this way it is no more than upon a par with whist or chess, for example: and its use is — not inversely but directly in the ratio of the quantity of labor bestowed upon it:applied di immediately to the these other branches of art and science and not to posology, the same quantity of labor would yield still more use

☞ Draw to notice the small examples of the application of proportionality on morals and politics instead of crude and indefinite assertion in regard to the quantities of the objects in question.

4 But suppose the usefulness on the part of acquirements with ac thus acquired, make apply the mind to the intrinsically useful acquirement directly, than through the in of one not intrinsically useful.

Time and labour no work is the result of this misapplication

Attention is instrument without which no achievement can be made in the cultivation of any branch of art and science — no information can be obtained in respect of any thing which belongs to any part of the field of art and science.

The stronger the force of attention applied to any part of the field of art and science the greater the success with which the cultivation of it is likely to be attended. In Whatsoever degree the force of a more attention is exercised, the greater is the advancement he is capable of making in any part of the area of art and science

All this is true and incontestable. But it what is no less true is — that it is equally true of application the same quality of attention when if applied to any other branch of art and science. It belongs not therefore to this, or possessing in this way more than to any one of these two other branches

Take the the art and science of legislation, and Suppose then it were and to make the greatest pr, or is in any p — what is the course I should take Should I in the first instance begin with taking in hand the study of mathematics. No such thing: a more advantageous and with course to take would be to take to it art and science of legislation or to first — so? Because in that case, whatever quality of attention I

I was capable of employing would be applied to the best advantage: it would be applied at once to the p subject without being any of it , or collateral use

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Date_1	1820-06-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
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