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the same together: if then on either side of the scale:
the value be O: this will cancel the rank on the other
side; and make the supposed art not an art at all. This
will be the case with various subjects of intelligence
only; with jugglery, and games as chess, etc; and other
exercises of the body or the intellect which have no object;
and so on the other hand with mechanical operations -
weaving, etc which have an object but require no
productive power except mere habits of bodily movement.
a. But by the definition of an Art, any thing which has
not in its structure something of both; is not an art -
if therefore the value on either side of the scale be
zero, the subject of estimate is not an Art; the fair
way of ascertaining - etc
But even in this attempt we are met by fresh difficulties.
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