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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. II.?1. Histoire de la Decouverte de la Circulation dv Sana. Par P. Flodrens. Paris: 1857. 2. Versuch einer physiologischen Pathologic des Herzcns. Von Gabriel G. Valentin. Leipzig: 1866. 3. The Harveian Oration, 1877. By Edward H. Sieve- King, M.D. 4. Andrea Ctssalpini QueEstionum Peripateticarum Libri V.; Quastionum Medicarum Libri II. Venetiis: 1593. 5. Seroetus and Calvin. By R. Willis, M.D. London: 1877. Evert discovery is an idea. It is an intuition at the same time that it is an induction. For the recognition of a causal sequence in phenomena implies the grasp of at least a living fragment of the creative thought, and is, as it were, a backward tracking of the dim path?a reversal of the august primeval process?by which ' this true fair world of things ' emerged into existence. From the idea, in the beginning, sprang phenomena; from phenomena, in our trembling span of time, we remotely infer the idea. Thus an induction is an analysis, reducing facts to their elemental condition of ideas. And as the chemist believes in the theoretical possibility of an ultimate analysis, by which all variety of substances might be resolved into one fundamental element, so we can distantly conceive that, by one grand induction, embracing all possible phenomena, the whole visible creation might be led back to- one vast, eternal, all-embracing thought. As a matter of fact, however, chemical methods are imperfect, and human cognitions limited. Nevertheless, even a partial generalisation, based on a narrow range of facts, is found to be more fruitful of results, whether practical or speculative, than theories which, aiming at being universal, succeed only in being inconclusive, and are empty in proportion to their pretension. Greek philosophers and German metaphysicians, Budd...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346764 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346766 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $33.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 486 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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