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His majesty could not see why the principle was not applicable to politics. He resolved to try it.

— 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)

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

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

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