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The distinctions that have been above established are not to be esteemed visionary and uninstructive because the limits between the members of them are not always
accurately definable: nor because sometimes the existence of some member tho' perceived is perceived
but faintly — The limits been tween Light and Darkness are not definable: and yet the distinction
between Light and darkness is perfectly real and important.
Nor do I think it will be denied, especially when the use that is made of them in
the detail comes to be perceived, but that they are true in Theory they are true, & in practise may be useful:
provided that a man does not get to fancy that by spreading the outskirts of Mathematical
language on his subject, he has clothed invested that subject itself with Mathematical precision: nor to
call Demonstration, the precarious inductions of an experience often imperfect and equivocal:
and it must be acknowledged that our best reasonings on Jurisprudence are sometimes
nothing more
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