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Thus I do not see clearly in what way I can be said to have
changed my opinion, except in the way of intensifying it, when
in consequence of the accumulation of similar evidence since
1870, I recently spoke of the denial of evolution as not worth
serious consideration.
[7] Writers of this stamp are fond of talking about the Baconian
method. I beg them therefore to lay to heart these two weighty
sayings of the herald of Modern Science:--
"Syllogismus ex propositionibus constat, propositiones ex
verbis, verba notionum tesserae sunt. Itaque si notiones ipsae
(_id quod basis rei est_) confusae sint et temere a rebus
abstractae, nihil in iis quae superstruuntur est
firmitudinis."--"Novum Organon," ii. 14.
"Huic autem vanitati nonnulli ex modernis summa levitate ita
indulserunt, ut in primo capitulo Geneseos et in libro Job
et aliis scripturis sacris, philosophiam naturalem fundare
conati sint; _inter vivos quaerentes mortua_."--_Ibid._, 65.
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