Generality Is, Indeed, An Indispensable

It Has Often Been Argued That Absolute Scepticism Is Self-contradictory; But This Is A Mistake: And Even If It Were Not So, It Would Be No Argument Against The Absolute Sceptic, Inasmuch As He Does Not Admit That No Contradictory Propositions Are True. Indeed, It Would Be Impossible To Move Such A Man, For His Scepticism Consists In Considering Every Argument And Never Deciding Upon Its Validity; He Would, Therefore, Act In This Way In Reference To The Arguments Brought Against Him.

And What, Then, Is Belief? It Is The Demi-cadence Which Closes A Musical Phrase In The Symphony Of Our Intellectual Life.

It Is A Common Observation That A Science First Begins To Be Exact When It Is Quantitatively Treated. What Are Called The Exact Sciences Are No Others Than The Mathematical Ones.

It Is Certain That The Only Hope Of Retroductive Reasoning Ever Reaching The Truth Is That There May Be Some Natural Tendency Toward An Agreement Between The Ideas Which Suggest Themselves To The Human Mind And Those Which Are Concerned In The Laws Of Nature.

If Liberty Of Speech Is To Be Untrammeled From The Grosser Forms Of Constraint, The Uniformity Of Opinion Will Be Secured By A Moral Terrorism To Which The Respectability Of Society Will Give Its Thorough Approval.