Excerpt from The Meaning and the Method of Life: A Search for Religion in Biology The best method of reaching truth is that of a sym pathetic study of the facts before us - that is, by induc tion, and by a broad, careful, systematic inference, by making the light about us ever wider, and fearlessly at tacking the mystery beyond. Darkness and half-truths are thus progressively merged into light and larger truths, and the world of the known becomes ever greater and more satisfying. Let us renounce deduction, theories ...
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Excerpt from The Meaning and the Method of Life: A Search for Religion in Biology The best method of reaching truth is that of a sym pathetic study of the facts before us - that is, by induc tion, and by a broad, careful, systematic inference, by making the light about us ever wider, and fearlessly at tacking the mystery beyond. Darkness and half-truths are thus progressively merged into light and larger truths, and the world of the known becomes ever greater and more satisfying. Let us renounce deduction, theories clutched out of the air, word-wars and logical juggling, and fix our minds to a perception of facts and a sym pathetic interpretation of them. 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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