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...which Tail's beautiful " sea-bird analogy, " as it has been called, can explain all these phenomena. The essence of science, as is well illustrated by...anticipating future evolutions, from phenomena which have actuilly come under observation. In biology, the difficulties of successfully acting up to this ideal...

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...arrangement, as of a flock of birds, or the edge of a cloud of tobacco smoke. The essence of science consists in inferring antecedent conditions and anticipating...naturalists of the present day are, however, not appalled by them, and are struggling to pass out of the mere " natural history stage " of their study and to...

...which Tait's beautiful " seabird analogy," as it has been called, can explain all these phenomena. The essence of science, as is well illustrated by...difficulties of successfully acting up to this ideal arc prodigious. The earnest naturalists of the present day are, however, not appalled or paralyzed...

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...which many of you must have listened last evening with admiration. Sir William Thomson said :— " The essence of science, as is well illustrated by...cosmical physics, consists in inferring antecedent condition;', and anticipating future evolutions, from phenomena which have actually come under observation....

...discourse to which many of you must have listened last evening with admiration. Sir Wm. Thomson said—" The essence of science, as is well illustrated by astronomy and cosmical physies, consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and anticipating future evolutions, from phenomena...

...to acknowledge any such arbitrary limitations. "The essence of science," says Sir William Thomson, "consists in inferring antecedent conditions, and...phenomena which have actually come under observation." 2 If this be the essence of science, then we presume that it is competent to throw some. light on the...