Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
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The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.Henry Mayhew
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
Henry Mayhew
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Henry Mayhew
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
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Henry Mayhew
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
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