Dissertations and Discussions, Vol. 2 of 3

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Excerpt from Dissertations and Discussions, Vol. 2 of 3: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Human intellect and feelings, he considered the long or extensive prevalence of any Opinion as a presump tion that it was not altogether a fallacy, that, to its first authors at least, it was the result of a struggle to express in words something which had a reality to them, though perhaps not to many of those who have since received the doctrine by mere tradition. The long duration of a belief, he thought, is at least proof of an adaptation in it to some portion or other of the human mind: and if, on digging down to the root, we do not find, as is generally the case. Some truth, we shall find some natural want or requirement of human nature which the doctrine in question is fitted to satisfy among which wants the instincts of selfishness and of credulity have a place, but by no means an exclusive one. From this difference in the points of view of the two philosophers, and from the too rigid adherence of each to his own, it was to be expected that Bentham should continually miss the truth which is in the tradi tional Opinions, and Coleridge that which is out of them and at variance with them. But it was also likely that each would find, or Show the way to finding, much of what the other missed. 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.