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abstract and deserted void which is everything and nothing. But on
this
basis, anyone can arrogate to himself a public, and
j~st
as the
Roman Church chimerically extended its frontiers by appointing
bishops
in partibus infidelium,
so a public is something which every
one can claim, and even a drunken sailor exhibiting a peep-show
has dialectically the same right to a public as the greatest man. He
has just as logical a right to put all those noughts
in front of
his
single number.
This is the -essence -of what
I
have tried to say in these
articles.
