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of rendering life, not what it now is 

 almost universally, puerile and insig- 

 nificant, but such as human beings 

 with highly developed faculties can 

 care to have. 



§ 8. With these remarks we must 

 close this summary view of the ap- 

 plication of the general logic of 

 scientific inquiry to the moral and 

 social departments of science. Not- 

 withstanding the extreme generality 

 of the principles of method which I 

 have laid down, (a generality which, 

 I trust, is not in this instance syno- 

 nymous 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 observations may be use- 

 ful, 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 

 realised, 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. 



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