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tax upon inheritances from revolutions. It was the product of a double and triple revolution, -- the renaissance, the reformation, the Coppernican revolution. It was, from the first, committed to a a vendetta, committed to a vendetta against all exact thinking and all punctual discussions. It has been a derelict on a vast ocean of surmise, drifting hither and thither, driven by storms, wrecked, shattered, its pieces dispersed even to opposite poles. Jetsam only is now occasionally cast up on the beaches of solid science, fraught with no cargo of wisdom except one sad lesson of the issues of loose thinking.

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Broad generalization is splendid glorious when it is the inevitable squeezing out-pressed juice of painfully matured little details of knowledge; but when it is not that, it is a crude spirit inciting only broils between a hundred little dogmas, each most justly condemning all the others. It is the usual fruit of sloth. A reader who is