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884) that it is better to be imprudent than a hypocrite, — though for that matter these are hardly the only altematires. CONDOBCET. 243 upon the progress of the human mind of the change from writing on such subjects as science, philosophy, and jurisprudence in Latin, to the usual language of each country. That change rendered the sciences more popular, but it increased the trouble of the scientific men in following the general march of knowledge It caused a book to be read in one country by mor...e men of inferior competence, but less read throughout Europe by men of superior light And though it relieves men who have no leisure for extensive study from the trouble of learning Latin, it imposes upon prof ounder persons the necessity of learning a variety of modem languages.^ Again, ground is broken for the most important reflection, in the remark that men preserve the prejudices of their childhood, their country, and their age, long after they have recognised all the truths necessary to destroy them.^ Perhaps most instructive and most tranquillising of all is this, that the progress of physical knowledge is constantly destroying in silence erroneous opinions which had never seemed to be attacked.^ And in reading history, how much ignor- ance and misinterpretation would have been avoided, if the student had but been careful to remember that ' the law as written and the law as administered ; the principles of those in power, and the modification of their action by the sentiments of the governed ; an institution as it emanates from those who form it, and the same institution realised ; the religion of books, 1 (Euv.
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