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more necessary to withstand that passion of the mind which , proposing to itself individual distinction , or otherwise too selfish to rejoice in comparative good , refuses to bestir itself in that which has not
perfection for its ultimate prospect . Perfection should be always our polar star of life , yet not in the sense of a contemplated acquisition , but only—agreeably to the strict figure—as an object of direction , which we are to follow not the less
industriously nor the less gratefully because it will stilladvance as we may—lie for ever to the north . It is the summit of philosophy , to know we follow what we never shall overtake , yet not less willingly to follow . Because this is
improvement , though it is not consummation . With respect to the affairs of
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Quite commissa suae , Jocaste , quondam Alcmaeon fidei , scelestus ille Scribens prodidit omnia in libellis . Et sic qu&m minimi fidem fefellit .
[ This Latin epigram , an or iginal , is from the pen of the writer of the preceding article . Perhaps some classical reader will amuse himself with jggiving us a version of it . —Edit . M . R . ]
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Truth , generally , very much I am persuaded is still in our power , and that much neither abstract and over-speculative , nor uninteresting to the student in philosophy , but of immediate concern to all and
with a powerful bearing on practical life . But there is only one condition on which truth will be wooed . He that begins must begin with a courage able to meet any conclusions . Otherwise the whole
pursuit is a farce , and to talk of truth a sort of Irish bull . I will conclude this paper by placing here emphatically my conviction , that an essay on truth , such as I have above sketched , must be founded on a deep basis of philology , and that he who would think of
commencing the subject from any other quarter of it , would be unfit to handle it at all . *
? It was this feeling that led the writer of the present paper , a year or two ago , to commence a work on the philosophy of language , called « Thoughts on Language , ' of which a few chapters , towards a first book on the origin of speech , have appeared in print , but which remains a fragment until more leisure and independence enable him to proceed with it . He had often designed papers on subject ! connected with moral philosophy , but when he perceived , as he thought , that the great rock on which writers had struck was language , he determined to " begin at the begipning , " and , borrowing a hint from the workmen , to examine his tools before he proceeded to use them .
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122 De Fide Alcmeonis .
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> DE FIDE ALCM 7 E 0 NIS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/50/
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