Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have …

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. ✨ Francis Bacon (1858). The Works, p.79
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. ✨ Francis Bacon (1858). The Works, p.79

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