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" But what is an explanation ? Perhaps the best definition is that it is 

 a description of the unknown, in terms of the known, for we can only know 

 anything when we can trace likeness between it and other things with which 

 we are familiar, and this evolves comparison. Comparison is not however 

 possible till objects are known, with which the unknown thing can be 



compared But making wrong comparisons is better than sot 



making any." — Wm. Schooling, Westm. Rev., Feb. 1891. 



