ABSTRACT
In the Introduction the varieties of employment of Consensus, or the reference to the collective consciousness of mankind, were stated as (1) confirmatory of the experience of the individual by the Empirical Schools, of the reasonings of the individual by the Rational Schools; (2) as itself contributing a fact of widespread extent, needing interpretation, and yielding material for an inferential argument; these on the one side: and (3) as a substitute for the individual consciousness, or with at least a large share of legitimate authority along with the individual’s private judgment.
