Chapter III., Of the Relative Importance of Truths:--First, that Particular Truths are more important than General Ones.

§1.	Necessity of determining the relative importance of truths.	58
§2.	Misapplication of the aphorism: "General truths are more important than particular ones."	58
§3.	Falseness of this maxim, taken without explanation.	59
§4.	Generality important in the subject, particularity in the predicate.	59
§5.	The importance of truths of species is not owing to their generality.	60
§6.	All truths valuable as they are characteristic.	61
§7.	Otherwise truths of species are valuable, because beautiful.	61
§8.	And many truths, valuable if separate, may be objectionable in connection with others.	62
§9.	Recapitulation.	63