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INTRODUCTION. Principle of Utility. Prejudices against
The truth of the matter seems to be, that
when by the time the Idea time is arrived to this pitch of
abstraction, it loses as it were its figure signification in the mind
hence it is bandied about from speaker to
speaker, till coming to those some one who not being more attending
or perhaps never having recognized it's genealogy
(from whence the significance of the word expressing it is devised) learns
to imagine that it has some [the word has no significance]
or at least that it may once might have had is so far
lost evaporated, as not to be recoverable for the
purposes of being applied to particular cases particular application.+ + Example IV D'Alembert 131 It is a spectacle not a little surprizing to observe a writer the 1st perhaps of the age for the extent & precision of his knowledge regard the notion of utility under the confused aspect here described.
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