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in general, is the life devoted to the
pursuit of truth according to the best
known methods of on the part of a group of men who
understand one another's ideas and
works as no outsider can. It is not
what they have already found out which
makes their business a science; it is that
they are pursuing a branch of truth according,
I will not say, to the best methods, but
according to the best methods that are
known at the time. I do not call the solitary
studies of a single man a science. It
is only when a group of men, more or less in
intercommunication, are aiding and
stimulating one another by their better understanding