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maintain that his analysis ought to determine conduct, the fact remains, 
that it does Dot. And, as I said many years ago, in my book on Final 
Causes , “ The facts of human nature are the data for the science of human 
nature .” 
The necessity of ready action, not only in each great crisis, but, frequently, 
in every step and stage of action (in the midst of which a pause is often 
impossible), shows that we act on something more than analysis, more than 
calculation ; even on that which, express it as we may, is practically, and 
always, an instinct of our own, though also a common instinct, or that which 
we have in communion. Since Locke, all our philosophy has suffered by 
overlooking this. The ignoring of the a prion will in our times, however, 
avenge itself. Truth and fact cannot ultimately be put down by theory ; as 
Mr. Spencer will find. 
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