Excerpt from Lay Sermons That demonstration could not be reached is shown by the fact that good authorities were to be found on each side. Some able economists took one view of the matter, others emphatically championed an opposite view, and even among those that agreed as to conclusions there were seldom two that agreed as to the methods of reaching their conclusions. You may urge that more students of economics or, in your judgment, better ones were on one side than on the other of the silver question, but the reply is ...
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Excerpt from Lay Sermons That demonstration could not be reached is shown by the fact that good authorities were to be found on each side. Some able economists took one view of the matter, others emphatically championed an opposite view, and even among those that agreed as to conclusions there were seldom two that agreed as to the methods of reaching their conclusions. You may urge that more students of economics or, in your judgment, better ones were on one side than on the other of the silver question, but the reply is that demonstration is not a matter of averaging and balancing opinions. Let us bring to mind the essential character of a demonstration by an anecdote from a funny paper: First Lawyer: I was looking over my boy's geometry lesson last night. I was quite interested in the proposition that the three interior angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles.' Second Lawyer: That is not very compli cated.' First Lawyer: 'no; but I was trying to think what a man could do if he had the other side of the case.' Now law, in so far as it is scientific, is one Of the social sciences. A man trained in that specialty had grown so fully into the belief that there are two sides to every ques tion that he was trying to find arguments to controvert a mathematical demonstration. Whenever there really are two sides to a question demonstration has not as yet been reached, science has not as yet pronounced its final word in regard to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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