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ypotheses are real facts with some of their circumstances exaggerated or omitted 2553. Some of the first principles of geometry are axioms, and these are not hypothetical 256 4. --but are experimental truths 258 5. An objection answered 261 6. Dr. Whewell's opinions on axioms examined 264 CHAPTER VI. The same Subject continued. Sec. 1. All deductive sciences are inductive 281 2. The propositions of the science of number are not verbal, but generalizations from experience 284 3. In what sense
object that causeth them, but so many several motions of the matter, by which it presseth our organs diversly. Neither in us that are pressed, are they anything els, but divers motions; (for motion, produceth nothing but motion.) But their apparence to us is Fancy, the same waking, that dreaming. And as pressing, rubbing, or striking the Eye, makes us fancy a light; and pressing the Eare, produceth a dinne; so do the bodies also we see, or hear, produce the same by their strong, though
age to the door of her private retreat, and was about to knock when he was deterred by the words which he could clearly hear. Chapter III FRANCIS HAMMERTON, if we are to think of him by his true name, had not considered the probability that Mrs. Benson might not be the sole occupant of the house, his mind having been concentrated upon aspects of his position which threatened more definite hazards. Actually, the woman whose voice he heard was a next-door neighbour, Miss Janet Brown, who had
of the slaves, or to march to Mexico--see if I would go"; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge
eth headlong. Sa'dΓ. 43. A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow. Dhammapada. 44. Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows. Chinese. 45. Both white and black acknowledge women's sway, So much the better and the wiser too, Deeming it most convenient to obey, Or possibly they might their folly rue.[6] Persian. [6] Cf. Pope: Would men but follow what the sex advise, All things would prosper, all
