The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Jsing the name in a wide sense we may say that experience comprehends all that we feel, externally or nternally the aggregate of the impressions which we receive through the various apertures of perception the Aggregate consequently of what is in the mind, except so kr as some portions of knowledge may be the reasoned equivalents of other portions. As the word experience rnpliesa, we go through much in life, and the impressions gathered intentionally or unintentionally afford the materials from which the active powers of the mind svolve science. No small part of the experience actually employed in icience is acquired without any distinct purpose. We ;annot use the eyes without gathering some facts which may prove useful. Every great branch of science has generally taken its first rise from an accidental observaion. Erasmus Bartholinus thus first discovered double efraction in Iceland spar; Galvani noticed the twitching of a frogs leg; Oken was struck by the form of a aM ax Miiller sL ectures on Language, vol. ii. p. 73- VOL. II.
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