This science [epistemology] of the grounds and groundwork of science is one to the study of which gifted minds are spontaneously impelled, as ordinary minds are impelled to acquire at least the rudiments of ordinary scientific truth.
The Groundwork of Science; A Study of Epistemology, Chapter I (p. 2), G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1898
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