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they result; should be resolved into the properties of 

 the causes on which the phenomena depend. In other 

 words, the science of Human Nature may be said to 

 exist, in proportion as those approximate truths, which 

 compose a practical knowledge of mankind, can be 

 exhibited as corollaries from the universal laws of 

 human nature on which they rest; whereby the proper 

 limits of those approximate truths would be shown, 

 and we should be enabled to deduce others for any 

 new state of circumstances, in anticipation of specific 

 experience. 



The proposition now stated is the text on which 

 the two succeeding chapters will furnish the comment. 



