“No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”
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“The doctrine of false position has been but little studied in the United States. In France it is understood perfectly. There everything is solved by false position, just as chymists solve everything by attraction and repulsion, mathematicians by circles and tangents, old people by loss and gain, young people by love and courtship.”
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
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“My readers understand now something of the nature of a false position.”
Alexander Bryan Johnson
(1786–1867) United States philosopher and banker
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
Context: My readers understand now something of the nature of a false position. I hope they will never know one experimentally. Should they unfortunately become entangled with one, they had better not flounder along in it till they are carried they know not whither, but adopt the practice of French and English statesmen, who, immediately on the happening of such a dilemma, submit to what they call a ministerial crisis, and quietly resign their official posts. An occasion of this kind has just transpired in France.... They wisely chose the latter evil, and retired covered with glory for the great things they would have accomplished had the king only permitted them to carry forward their grand designs: thus the ministers preserve their credit the nation its peace.
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