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I. Prolegomena

Ch. Under Credence Causes

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[....?] [...?] have not has [...?] [...?] to extent

Per the impossible &c

1. Ignorance in the field of Somatology /Somatomy/.

somatology (s@Um@"tQl@dZI).

[f. somato- + -logy, or ad. mod.L. somatologia (O. Casmann, 1596). Cf. F. somatologie (1762).]

1. A treatise or science dealing with the properties of bodies.

1736 Bailey (fol.) Pref., Somatology,..a Discourse of Matter or Substance in the General, the Natures and inseparable Properties of Bodies.

1813­21 Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 195/1 Somatology, the only branch of physics that comes under the cognisance of sense.

2. ignorance in the subject of pneumatology /pneumatomy/.

Pneumatology b. The science of the nature and functions of the human soul or mind, now commonly called psychology.

1785 Reid Intell. Powers Pref. (1803) 9 There are two great branches of philosophy, one relating to body, the other to mind... The branch which treats of the nature and operations of minds has by some been called Pneumatology. [Hamilton, in note (Reid’s Wks. 1846), Now properly superseded by the term Psychology.]

3. The passion of fear and hope: fear looking aversely to the matter of evil: hope willingly and eagerly to the matter of good, considered as having supernatural for its source. 4. deference of the individual to the influence exercised by the understanding of the influential few over that of the ignorant many—those to appearance present themselves to a first view as so many causes distinct from all the several former ones: but in a nearer view they will be found either the same as this or that one of them already mentioned are, or designative of objects bearing towards them the relation of species to a genus.

1. and 2. To the heads of intellectual

weakness belong somatological and pneumatological ignorance.

3. To the head of sinister

interest or interest-begotten-prejudice belong the fear and the hope: both of which are the result of that ignorance and of that consequential mental weakness. Operating on one side only viz. in the affirmative direction in which the interest correspondent to those fears and those hopes—applies its foce, the direction in which the interest operates and thence in so far as it operates in that direction, the interest itself—to these motives may well be designated by the appellative of a sinister one.

To the head of adoptive weakness or adoptive prejudice belong the sort of intellectual weakness of all those MS alt. illegible. who on any subject to the examination of which, the nature of the question, and the state of his own [...?] considered, he is not incompetent, keeps the door of his mind shut notwithstanding, and instead of applying his attention to such reasons as the nature of the subject furnishes, sets himself in the inquiry what in the subject in question is the opinion prevalent either among the many the multitude at large, or among the distinguished and in relation to the particular subject in question, as supposed to be best instructed few.
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