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true. In dealing with the activities of the few, we Book n 

 have taken those of the many for granted. This 

 general assumption, however, though inevitable at we had to 



. . . ' r ,11 i take it for 



the beginning of our inquiry, has been provisional granted at 

 only. To any scientific conception of what is done V 



exclusively by the few, an equally scientific con- 

 ception of what is done by the many is essential. 

 We must measure the former by the latter, as we 

 measure mountains by their respective heights above 

 the sea-level. That such a discrimination between 

 the work of these two bodies is possible may be 

 doubted by some ; and accordingly before we actu- 

 ally proceed to undertake it, we will dispose of the 

 arguments that will be, and actually have been, 

 advanced in proof of its impracticability, and set forth 

 the principles on which it must be, and obviously 

 can be, made. 



