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ded to any man in science.
This gives the scientific men the idea that reasoning is not of muh value.
You must remember that the scientific man has very little time for reasoning.
He is mostly worked to death preparing for observations.
Moreover, in these days a great proportion of the scientific men have little mental training outside of a narrow line of work.
The result of all this is that there is a growing tendency to undervalue reasoning ans deliberately to adopt the logical theory that the best way is to adopt whatever views are most advanced on go a little further in the direction in which opinion seems to be advancing.

Now it it perfectly true that it is not absolutely essential to the advance of sci-