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Now it is patent enough, at first glance, that the veriest savagemust have been an observer of the phenomena of nature. But it maynot be so obvious that he must also have been a classifier of hisobservations--an organizer of knowledge. Yet the more we considerthe case, the more clear it will become that the two methods aretoo closely linked together to be dissevered. To observe outsidephenomena is not more inherent in the nature of the mind than todraw inferences from these phenomena. A deer passing through theforest scents the ground and detects a certain odor. A sequenceof ideas is generated in the mind of the deer. Nothing in thedeer's experience can produce that odor but a wolf; therefore thescientific inference is drawn that wolves have passed that way.But it is a part of the deer's scientific knowledge, based onprevious experience, individual and racial; that wolves areda
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3 (p. 159). Fairbanksβ translation of the fragments of Anaxagoras, in The First Philosophers of Greece, pp. 239-243.
CHAPTER VIII. POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS
1 (p. 180). Alfred William Bern, The Philosophy of Greece Considered in Relation to the Character and History of its People, London, 1898, p. 186.
2 (p. 183). Aristotle, quoted in William Whewellβs History of the Inductive Sciences (second edition, London, 1847), Vol. II., p.
161.
CHAPTER IX. GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC
PERIOD1 (p. 195). Tertullianβs Apologeticus.
2 (p. 205). We quote the quaint old translation of North, printed in 1657.
CHAPTER X. SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD
1 (p. 258). The Geography of Strabo, translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, 3 vols., London, 1857, Vol. I, pp. 19, 20.
2 (p. 260). Ibid., p. 154.
3 (p. 263). Ibid., pp. 169, 170.
4 (p. 264) Ibid., pp. 166, 167.
5 (p. 271). K. 0. Miller and John W. Donaldson, The History of the Literature of Greece, 3 vols., London, Vol. III., p. 268.
6 (p. 276). E. T. Withington, Medical History fron., the Earliest Times, London, 1894, p. 118.
7 (p. 281). Ibid.
8 (p. 281). Johann Hermann Bass, History of Medicine, New York, 1889.
CHAPTER XI. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE
(p. 298). Dion Cassius, as preserved by Xiphilinus. Our extract is quoted from the translation given in The Historiansβ History of the World (edited by Henry Smith Williams), 25 vols., London and New York, 1904, Vol. VI., p. 297 ff.
[For further bibliographical notes, the reader is referred to the Appendix of volume V.]
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