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EVER since the dawn of the human intellect, man has tried to increase his knowledge in two ways, by observation and by speculation. Observation came first, for that is common to man and animals. Speculation is a distinctly human attribute, and we find that it soon out-distanced observation, and formed the basis of the earlier philosophies. But during the last few centuries, the observational method has once more come to the front under the name of science, and its conclusions have not always been in accord with those of the speculative philosophies which preceded it.
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Evolution and its Teaching . Nature 65, 425–427 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065425a0