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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 revo-
lution. It was, from the first, committed to a a vendetta
against all exact thinking and all punctual discus-
sions. 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 {strikeout: "splendid"} glorious when it is the
inevitable {strikeout: "squeezing"} out-pressed juice of painfully matured little details of knowledge; but when it is
not that, it is a crude spirit waiting 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 | 15tax upon inheritances from revolutions. It was the
product of a double and triple revolution, -- the
renaissance, the reformation, the Coppernican revo-
lution. It was, from the first, committed to a a vendetta
against all exact thinking and all punctual discus-
sions. 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.
{Left margin, second line of following paragraph: "The Industrious Apprentice."}
Broad generalization is {strikeout: "splendid"} glorious when it is the
inevitable {strikeout: "squeezing"} out-pressed juice of painfully matured little details of knowledge; but when it is
not that, it is a crude spirit waiting 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 |