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both in the compai-atively humble sense of pleasure and freedom from 

 pain, and in the higher meaning, of rendering life, not what it now is almost 

 universally, puerile and insignificant, but such as human beings with high- 

 ly developed faculties can care to have. 



§ 8. With these remarks we must close this summary view of the appli- 

 cation of the general logic of scientific inquiry to the moral and social de-. 

 partments of science. Notwithstanding the extreme generality of the 

 principles of method which I have laid down (a generality which, I trust, 

 is not, in this instance, synonymous with vagueness), I have indulged the 

 hope that to some of those on whom the task will devolve of bringing those 

 most important of all sciences into a more satisfactory state, these observa- 

 tions may be useful, both in removing erroneous, and in clearing up the 

 true, conceptions of the means by which, on subjects of so high a degree of 

 complication, truth can be attained. Should this hope be realized, what is 

 probably destined to be the great intellectual achievement of the next two 

 or three generations of European thinkers will have been in some degree 

 forwarded. 



THE END. 



