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• As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,…
• Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
• Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it…
• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a…
• When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…
• Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

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