And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.Chauncey Wright
This does not deny, however, that they may be, as truths, the conclusions of other processes to wit, the inductions of experience.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
Chauncey Wright
Strictly speaking, Natural Selection is not a cause at all, but is the mode of operation of a certain quite limited class of causes.
Chauncey Wright
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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