Page:A philosophical essay on probabilities Tr. Truscott, Emory 1902.djvu/141

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SELECTIONS AND DECISIONS OF ASSEMBLIES.
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opinion which obtained then would be probably the mean of all these opinions. The assembly would receive thus at the time the same advantage that is given to it by the extension of the elections of its members to all parts of the territory which it represents. Now if one considers what experience has only too clearly taught, namely, that elections are always directed in the greatest degree by dominant opinions, one will feel how useful it is to temper these opinions, the ones by the others, by means of a partial renewal.