The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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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.Chauncey Wright
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
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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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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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