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The flimsy materials out of which some "philosophies" have been constructed are fit only for the attention of the fabulist, certainly not for the serious scientist. The entire structure rests on a base of fiction unmixed with the concrete of a single fact. One may well exclaim with Macaulay, "When the consequences of a doctrine are so startling, we may well require that its foundations shall be very solid."

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 67