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1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 10

until it is so published as to be open to the criticism, kind
but searching and inflexible, of the members of that social
group that comprises all those who are qualified by their life's devotion
to inquiries nearly in the same line to make such criticisms. If the
work sustains such criticism, its result is admitted with unani-
mity by the group, and is said to be 'established'.

I shall make great use of the word Science in this writing.
It will be one of my most indispensible tools, and I must
be permitted to whittle at its meaning a little to fit it to my
hand. That it may become a practical tool, I wish it to imply
an actual state of things, a living fact widely répandu, no monu-
ment to dead discoveries, nor yet involving any vain pretension
to know what future knowledge is to be like, but a human