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APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

lii truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone -purification there has little chance of admission into the sail etna ry. ■X- -X- -x- * The memorable service rendered to the cause of sound thinking by Descartes consisted in this: that lie laid the foundation of modern philosophical criticism by his inquiry into the nature of certainty. * * * * There is no quesUon in the mind of anyone acquainted with the facts that, so far as observation and experiment can take us, the structure and functions of the nervous system are fundamentally .the same in an ape, or in a dog, and in a man. And the suggestion that we must stop at the exact point at which direct proof fails us. ami refuse to believe that the similarity which extends so far stretches yet further, is no better than a quibble, Robinson Crusoe did nob feel bound to conclude, from the single human footprint that he saw in the sand, that tile maker of the impression had only one leg..

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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 1

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APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 1

APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 1

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