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in the universities; although there are some whose logical instincts have been too robust to be so easily debilitated.

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The Greek philosophers could not be persuaded that minute analysis was proper in physical science. Born Aegelian sensualists, they could not divest themselves of their belief that no worse way of getting at any comprehension of a flower by picking it to pieces, and so spoiling the flower. What was the result? Manifold have been the theories to account that have been successfully offered, considered, and rejected, to account for the non-success of the Greeks in physics. That the vast intellect of an Aristotle, so great in zoölogy, in the science of politics, in rhetoric, in the history of philosophy; so gigantic in ethics, logic, metaphysics, and psychology; should, in physics, have

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