Nd Now That Man's History

Each Department Of Knowledge Passes Through Three Stages. The Theoretic Stage; The Theological Stage And The Metaphysical Or Abstract Stage.

Humanity Is Always Made Up Of More Dead Than Living.

Induction For Deduction, With A View To Construction.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But Which Is Based On Observed Facts.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But That Which Is Based On Observed Facts. This Is Incontestable, In Our Present Advanced Stage; But, If We Look Back To The Primitive Stage Of Human Knowledge, We Shall See That It Must Have Been Otherwise Then. If It Is True That Every Theory Must Be Based Upon Observed Facts; It Is Equally True That Facts Can Not Be Observed Without The Guidance Of Some Theory. Without Such Guidance, Our Facts Would Be Desultory And Fruitless; We Could Not Retain Them: For The Most Part We Could Not Even Perceive Them.