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Robinson Crusoe 

 made an excellent survey of his island, and 

 felt a legitimate scientific assurance of its 

 thoroughness, a corresponding personal pride 

 also; but when Friday came, bringing with 

 him a widely different tradition of culture, his 

 fresh survey not only enriched his master's 

 at many a point, but taught him, indeed 

 each of them, its relativity as well. Here 

 jndeed is the practical ppterirm of scientific 

 their yerifiabilitv bv diverse 



Tm'njs. So far then from sneering at La- 

 marck as an impassioned son of the revolution, 

 at Darwin as a shrewd and prosperous 

 modern Englishman, at Weismann as a 

 German ennobled, and so on, we begin to 

 see how, just as " it takes all kinds of j>eople 



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A science is one of the most collective, most 

 historic, of products; 



