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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.