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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of curves of existing conditions cannot take into consideration the discovery of new factors which may alter, and frequently do alter, the trend of tendency. Even an author like Mr. H. G. Wells, with wide scientific learning upon which to build his brilliant romances, could not anticipate such discoveries as wireless telegraphy, Rontgen rays or radium, though he could foresee extensions of existing knowledge, and visualise social effects of progressive science and invention. Science advances by opening completely new fields of knowledge upon which the literary man or investigator may exercise their intellectual activities, and the directions in which these domains are to be found are rarely indicated with success in romantic or in scientific literature. Because it is impossible to know what future work will bring forth, purely imaginative forecasts of things to come are probably as much, or as little, to be depended upon as strictly logical conclusions based upon accomplished fact. True it is that whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. CHAPTER VII LAW AND PEINCIPLB The great tragedy of science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Huxley. Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of the intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and its energy. Sir Humphry Davy. Of all monarchs Nature is the most just in enactment of laws, and the most rigorous in punishing the violation of them. Wilkins. Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small: Though with patience he stands waiting, With exactness, grinds he all. Longfellow. Nature is so varied in her manifestations and phenomena, and the...

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