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- Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater…
- The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges…
- Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being…
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