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Logic II 54

method; and in so far, such men, among whom
many have been looked upon in their day as great
lights, are not genuine men of science; though it would
be most unjust foul injustice to exclude them absolutely from
their class. So if a man pursues a futile method through
neglect to inform himself of effective methods, he is no
scientific man; he has not been moved by an intelligibly sincere desire
to learn
and effective desire to learn. But if a man simply
fails to inform himself of previous work which would have
facilitated his own, although he is to blame, it would be too harsh
to say that he has violated the essential principles of science. It a
man pursues a method which, though very bad is the best that the
state of intellectual development of his time or the state of the particular science he pursues would
enable a man to take, -- I mean, for example, such
men as Lavater, Paracelsus and the earlier alchemists, the author of the first
chapter of genesis, the old metaphysicians, -- we perhaps cannot call them scientific
men, perhaps, and while perhaps we ought to to do. Opitions would differ about this. They are,

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