The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment

No General Description Of The Mode Of Advance Of Human Knowledge Can Be Just Which Leaves Out Of Account The Social Aspect Of Knowledge. That Is Of Its Very Essence. What A Thing Society Is! The Workingman, With His Trade Union, Knows That. Men And Women Moving In Polite Society Understand It, Still Better. But Bohemians, Like Me, Whose Work Is Done In Solitude, Are Apt To Forget That Not Only Is A Man As A Whole Little Better Than A Brute In Solitude, But Also That Everything That Bears Any Important Meaning To Him Must Receive Its Interpretation From Social Considerations.

Law Is Par Excellence The Thing That Wants A Reason. Now The Only Possible Way Of Accounting For The Laws Of Nature, And For Uniformity In General, Is To Suppose Them Results Of Evolution.

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.

Some Think To Avoid The Influence Of Metaphysical Errors, By Paying No Attention To Metaphysics; But Experience Shows That These Men Beyond All Others Are Held In An Iron Vice Of Metaphysical Theory, Because By Theories That They Have Never Called In Question.

The Method Of Authority Will Always Govern The Mass Of Mankind; And Those Who Wield The Various Forms Of Organized Force In The State Will Never Be Convinced That Dangerous Reasoning Ought Not To Be Suppressed In Some Way.