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CLASSIFICATION. A1
Such is the effect in point of precision of that Factorical nomenclature (& the
arrangement that depends on it) which according to some mens notions Pure imaginations constitute
the essence & the very life of the Science — As the Term from having so many heterogeneous
meanings, be is become in a manner to have none, we are driven to seek grope for one and the
dark recesses of Etymology — a pursuit in which even the most learned have little
reason to boast of their success. But as to the illiterate which we well whom we never sufficient
consider'd to be the bulk of mankind, it is plain no such notion manner/method of fixing
it's import can be pursued or be so much as socurer. thought of much less be pursued. That term in which their
fate their existence is involved, remains & must for ever remain <add.to them</add> an inexplicable
jargon. Happy [would] indeed the Nation [be] should the time ever come when
the use usage<a/dd> of it should be buried in the same obscurity <add>oblivion with its origin.
Another mischief arising from
these Titles containing Articles
at once so numerous 2 & so heterogeneous,
is that men in laying down
to Law will be perpetually predicating
that of all i:e: of> the whole Title
which is properly predicable only
of only, i:e: of a part [of that whole]
A fruitful source of contradiction
& confusion perplexity.
[Premunire is] another of those obsequious Terms which having no import of its
own would admitt the most heterogeneous with the submitt to the most heterogeneous inputs which can be imposed when it with the most facility.
It is exactly upon a level in point of ...... with those once celebrated words
Bocardo & Baralipton & others of the same stamp which where/once so much in our Universities.
with this difference that of Bocardo & Baralipton more may be
without inconvenience, without their liberty's liberties or their property's properties being anyways
concerned in the matter, which is not the case with the this other formidable tremendous syllables
by virtue of which a man may be himself in the correct most dextrous/add> manner
imaginable without his proving any thing <add>thinking of any such thing why or wherefore about the matter. It is know to
to common people along with certain pronounced & some other of those moments to the
of the brotherhood as synonymous a kind of to a scrape into which a man may get
he knows not without knowing why nor wherefore
High Treason —
Now are these words necessary? nothing less — whatever other improvements in
the way of amplification are may be made in the Science, these remaining, it must
continue an enigma — an enigma, late which of itself for ever [unavoidably] unintelligible itself, to
be understood must be translated into some other language which they as well as in common are
men are acquainted with; Nor can we be at any act for such are one: far as the Ideas included under these genuine terms are known
<p.a word term that can never
be understood by itself
never can be necessary.
CLASSIFIC. and NOMENCL. Inconveniences of the Old. Premunire [BR][1][ ]
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