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- We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
- The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
- And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
- Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
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