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... judgments . Or , to contrast more fully the mode of reaching a conclusion which the man of science uses in his own department , with that which he regards as satisfactory in the department of politics , let us take a case from a ...
... judgments . Or , to contrast more fully the mode of reaching a conclusion which the man of science uses in his own department , with that which he regards as satisfactory in the department of politics , let us take a case from a ...
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... judgment sus- pended until no anomaly remains unexplained . Not only is he thus careful to shut out all possible error from inadequacy in the number and variety of data , but he is careful to shut out all pos- sible error caused by ...
... judgment sus- pended until no anomaly remains unexplained . Not only is he thus careful to shut out all possible error from inadequacy in the number and variety of data , but he is careful to shut out all pos- sible error caused by ...
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... judgments , the qualities of the individual , natural and acquired , are by far the most important factors . The bias of education , the bias of class - relationships , the bias of nationality , the poli- tical bias , the theological ...
... judgments , the qualities of the individual , natural and acquired , are by far the most important factors . The bias of education , the bias of class - relationships , the bias of nationality , the poli- tical bias , the theological ...
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... judgment is most cultivated , there is the least yielding to the " must - do - something impulse . " Is it not possible , then - is it not even probable , that this supposed necessity for immediate action , which is put in as an excuse ...
... judgment is most cultivated , there is the least yielding to the " must - do - something impulse . " Is it not possible , then - is it not even probable , that this supposed necessity for immediate action , which is put in as an excuse ...
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... judgments are not to be had : most of them are un- recorded , and those which are recorded are difficult to find as well as doubtful when found . " " Life is too short , and the demands upon our energies too great , to permit any such ...
... judgments are not to be had : most of them are un- recorded , and those which are recorded are difficult to find as well as doubtful when found . " " Life is too short , and the demands upon our energies too great , to permit any such ...
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Page 51 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
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Page 30 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Page 433 - The doubt which was laid revives again, and shows itself in new difficulties ; and that generally for this reason — because the mind, which is perpetually tossed in controversies and disputes, is apt to forget the reasons which had once set it at rest, and to be disquieted with any former perplexity when it appears in a new shape, or is started by a different hand.
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