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Excerpt from Exact Philosophy: Books First and Second The first indisposition of the general or national mind which a philosophical writer has to anticipate and provide against is, an indisposition towards the reading even, to say nothing of the study, of philosophic truth, whatever may be its degree of practical value. To the ordinary thinker this kind of knowledge presents nothing that will immediately excite ordinary pleasurable sensation; he perceives that the study of it would be irksome; and he evades the trouble that the study of it would cost him by the self-flattering, lying plea of its inutility. To him whose cranium is becoming the case of hardened forms of spurious knowledge, that philosophic truth which is indispensable to the formation even of the loftiest order of human intelligence, is to him, the ordinary thinker, unnecessary. In vain you verify for him by means of his daily experience, as a caution-light, the Greek thesis - "God gives nothing without labour." "The sluggard," says the royal Hebrew philosopher, "is wiser "in his own conceit than seven men that can render "a reason." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.