Excerpt from Introduction to Social Science: A Discourse in Three Parts
The perception of this logic is the best human knowledge. Slow are men in mastering it. Long ages of schooling they need to reach this vantage ground in culture. Only the most gifted reach it at all. Three fourths of the present inhabitants of the earth have not yet learned to perceive the presence and dominion of law, even in' physical phenomena. By the other fourth this perception has been, through toilsome, gradual steps, at last attained. The Caucasian race has seized on, and is subjecting, the vast kingdoms of the material world to science.
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