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Excerpt from Mathematical Psychics an Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences
The application of mathematics to Belief, the calculus of Probabilities, has been treated by many distinguished writers; the calculus of Feeling, of Pleasure and Pain, is the less familiar, but not in reality 1 more paradoxical subject of this essay.
The subject divides itself into two parts concerned respectively with principle and practice, root and fruit, the applicability and the application of Mathematics to Sociology.
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