"The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man."
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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.“
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