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" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the purpose, only there is no one by to observe... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works - Page 73
by Francis Bacon - 1863
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The Cambridge History of the Literature

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...be set aside ; we must be on our guard against the tendency to premature 'anticipations' of nature: 'the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument'; men must be led back to the particular facts of experience, and pass from them to general truths by...
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