Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Том 4,Частина 1

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Nova Scotian Institute of Science., 1876

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Сторінка 31 - When once a conclusion is made to hang not on observed facts, and the generalisations in which the facts verify themselves, but upon a vision confessedly prolonged beyond the facts, and crossing the boundary of experimental evidence, it is no longer in any sense a scientific conclusion. It may be as visionary as — it probably is far more so than — any of those theological or so-called anthropomorphic conclusions which are the special bane of Dr. Tyndall. It is indeed a strange outcome of...
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