 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 112 lehte
...contrived and varied, so as to exclude every agency but that which is the subject of the experiment — or, when disturbing agencies cannot be excluded, the minute...least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions which the mere surface of experience suggests. The study, on the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 476 lehte
...contrived and varied, so as to exclude every agency but that which is the subject of the experiment — or, when disturbing agencies cannot be excluded, the minute...least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions which the mere surface of experience suggests. The study, on the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 108 lehte
...accidental interest or prepossession. In politics, for instance, it is evident to whoever comes to the 50 study from that of the experimental sciences, that...least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions which the mere surface of experience suggests. The study, on the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 88 lehte
...been obstructed, not promoted, by these. All true political science is, in one sense of the phrase, d priori, being deduced from the tendencies of things...have been well disciplined in both. But familiarity 25 26 with scientific experiment at least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism... | |
 | 1868 - 848 lehte
...and says it as confidently as another, and each person's opinion is less determined by evidence vhan by his accidental -interest or prepossession. In politics,...disciplined in both. But familiarity with scientific experiments at least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 420 lehte
...tendency in the things themselves to produce it? If we had only the evidence of what is called onr experience, such prosperity as we enjoy might be owing...deduction, and the mind that is equal to it must have been vell disciplined in both. But familiarity with scientific experiment at lenst does the useful service... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 418 lehte
...obstructed, not promoted, by these. ^'A\\ true political science is, in one sense of the phrase, « priori, being deduced from the tendencies of things...least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions which the mere surface of experience suggests. •ToL. IY. 24 The... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 lehte
...we can have serves only to verify, and even that insufficiently, the conclusions of reasoning. . . . All true political science is, in one sense of the...of history considered as a progressive evolution." 1 Jevons, vol. i., p. 218. The same is true of the other sciences, and especially of the great natural... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 260 lehte
...we can have serves only to verify, and even that insufficiently, the conclusions of reasoning. . . . All true political science is, in one sense of the...of history considered as a progressive evolution." 1 Jcvons, vol. i., p. 218. The same is true of the other sciences, and especially of the great natural... | |
 | John Fiske - 1894 - 632 lehte
...be arrived at by direct experience. Such specific experience as we can have, serves only to verity, and even that insufficiently, the conclusions of reasoning....least does the useful service of inspiring a wholesome scepticism about the conclusions which the mere surface of experience suggests. The discipline of observation... | |
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All true political science is, in one sense of the phrase, a priori, being deduced from the tendencies of things, tendencies known either through our general experience of human nature, or as the result of an analysis of the course of history, considered... 
