/// PHILOSOPHY

“General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing, they become fixed rules of life, and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently, those who are not accustomed to original inquiry entertain a hatred and a horror of statistics. They cannot endure the idea of submitting their sacred impressions to cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph of [science] to rise superior to such superstitions .”