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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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.