Again, Both Literature And Philosophy Work By

If A Philosophic Theory Is Once Ruled Out Of Court, No One Can Tell When It Will Appear Again.

Small Groups Or Communities May Be Far More Oppressive To The Individual Than Larger Ones. Men Are In Many Ways Freer In Large Cities Than In Small Villages.

It Is Not Impossible To Think That The Minds Of Philosophers Sometimes Act Like Those Of Other Mortals, And That, Having Once Been Determined By Diverse Circumstances To Adopt Certain Views, They Then Look For And Naturally Find Reasons To Justify These Views.

To Be Sure, The Vast Majority Of People Who Are Untrained Can Accept The Results Of Science Only On Authority.

The Method Of Exposition Which Philosophers Have Adopted Leads Many To Suppose That They Are Simply Inquiries, That They Have No Interest In The Conclusions At Which They Arrive, And That Their Primary Concern Is To Follow Their Premises To Their Logical Conclusions.