Some Considerations on the Applications of Physiology to Medicine
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Knowledge has been likened by Montaigne"to the settling of wine. The sediment collected at the bottom represents that which has separated out as accepted truth from that which is in process by clarifying, while the scum at the top represents that doubtful stuff which may never be of any use at all. This simile is peculiarly applicable to the process which is at work in those subjects termed by W. K. Clifford the inexact as contrasted with the exact sciences.
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