Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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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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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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