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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...more things may, however, seem more or less like to different persons, because likeness or similarity depending, as I have explained, upon identity in some respects, coupled with diversity in others, the parties may respectively perceive a greater or less number of points of identity or sameness among the things compared. It is then, I think, clear as demonstration, that naturally men cannot differ in the power of intelligence. What, then, is it that produces the modification or diversity of power in that respect which is so apparent in different minds? Why do individuals vary in every degree in the faculty of intelligence--from the genius to the scholar--from the scholar to the boor--and from the boor to the idiot? They do so, because mankind vary also, by equally minute degrees, in their powers as well as opportunities of observance--or, what is the same thing, in the faculty of attending to and in the habit of comparing the various phenomena of nature; for intelligence being simply the act of detecting the particular qualities in which two or more objects are identical or diverse, it is evident that the detection of this identity or diversity can be the result only of minute attention to those objects--or rather to certain qualities of them abstracted and apart from the rest. To the generality of persons, for instance, all sheep appear alike, but to the shepherd, who has minutely attended to, and contrasted their various characteristics, in form and feature, each member of the flock is as different and distinguishable from the rest as one human being from another. Now, the philosopher, we must remember, does no more than the shepherd; he, merely by close observation or attention to the individual qualities of bodies, detects diversities among objects app...
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- EditoreRareBooksClub.com
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1130448150
- ISBN 13 9781130448153
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine50
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