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Many branches of knowledge exist in our world that are unknown to theory and untaught in schools.

— Alexander Bryan Johnson The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

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Man exists in a world of his own creation.

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

Success but sharpens his avidity, and facility but augments his impatience.

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

My readers understand now something of the nature of a false position.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [generally and incorrectly] reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

To remain permanently either on the pinnacle or in the abyss is deemed a species of the same disorder, though not so common.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

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