Argument Is Conclusive, But It Does Not

All Sciences Are Connected; They Lend Each Other Material Aid As Parts Of One Great Whole, Each Doing Its Own Work, Not For Itself Alone, But For The Other Parts; As The Eye Guides The Body And The Foot Sustains It And Leads It From Place To Place.

Argument Is Conclusive, But It Does Not Remove Doubt, So That The Mind May Rest In The Sure Knowledge Of The Truth, Unless It Finds It By The Method Of Experiment.

Experimental Science Is The Queen Of Knowledge.

As Regards Authority I So Proceed. Boetius Says In The Second Prologue To His Arithmetic, 'if An Inquirer Lacks The Four Parts Of Mathematics, He Has Very Little Ability To Discover Truth.' And Again, 'without This Theory No One Can Have A Correct Insight Into Truth.' And He Says Also, 'i Warn The Man Who Spurns These Paths Of Knowledge That He Cannot Philosophize Correctly.' And Again, 'it Is Clear That Whosoever Passes These By, Has Lost The Knowledge Of All Learning.'

Few Have Attained To Consummate Wisdom In The Perfection Of Philosophy: Solomon Attained To It, And Aristotle In Relation To His Times, And In A Later Age Avicenna, And In Our Own Days The Recently Deceased Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln, And Adam Marsh.