This book deals with the Force behind the nature and the study of Man as the Interpreter of Nature. We are accustomed to speak of the scientific achievements as triumphs of the human intellect. But the very phrase implies that the work is done by mental agency, and the coincidence of its results with the facts of observation is far from proving the intellectual process to have been correct. For we learn, from the confessions of Kepler, that he was...
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