^ De Groot 2009, note 2 Read full biography of Chauncey Wright →
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a... →
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills... →
^ De Groot 2009, note 2