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Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.

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No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

Hugh Elliot

Hugh Elliot

Hugh Elliot

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Born: April 6, 1752

Died: December 1, 1830 (aged 78)

Bio: Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat and then a colonial governor.

Known for:

Modern Science and Materialism
The Letters of John Stuart Mill
Human Character
Letters. Edited, with an Introd;

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