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" The only use of authority in Science is to furnish men of less abilitj' 

 with suggestions, which, as suggealions, may properly be considered more 

 M'orthy of testing by the objective methods, on account of their parentage 

 in the mind of geni-.is. But it is an evil day for Science, when such 

 parentage is taken as in itself a sufficient warrant for the truth of the ideas 

 which have been born of it ; for then it is that authority is allowed to usurp 



the place of verification " — " Aristotle as a Xatuealist," by 



Professor Komaues, Contemporari/ Review, Feb. 1891. 



