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Thus, although the writer is fundamentally in sympathy with the goal of Mr. Spencer's attempt, and although he accepts the same at posteriori truths, he is nevertheless compelled to criticise adversely the ambitious claims of the system, with the faultiness of reasoning and general bad workmanship entailed by the supposed accomplish ment of the endeavour. Although it is important that established truths should be frankly accepted, however inharmonious with previous beliefs, it is equally important that imperfections of theory should be freely acknow ledged. The attempt to outrun the gradual growth of knowledge by filling in every hiatus with theoretical ex planations is a positive obstruction to the progress of science.
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Excerpt from Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge
Thus, although the writer is fundamentally in sympathy with the goal of Mr. Spencer's attempt, and although he accepts the same at posteriori truths, he is nevertheless compelled to criticise adversely the ambitious claims of the system, with the faultiness of reasoning and general bad workmanship entailed by the supposed accomplish ment of the endeavour. Although it is important that established truths should be frankly accepted, however inharmonious with previous beliefs, it is equally important that imperfections of theory should be freely acknow ledged. The attempt to outrun the gradual growth of knowledge by filling in every hiatus with theoretical ex planations is a positive obstruction to the progress of science.
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This work, taken in conjunction with a previous one "On Mr. Spencer's Formula of Evolution," must be regarded as a criticism of the general logical construction of Mr. Spencer's philosophical system. The writer is not opposed to the author he criticises as regards the scientific doctrine of evolution or natural development, so far as it is known to us; but he sees great blanks in the deductive treatment, and great failures of explanation, which cause him to regard Air. Spencer's presumed fulness of exposition as merely illusory.
In so far as Mr. Spencer's work is viewed as an attempt to show the a, priori reasonableness of evolution by gradual development already established in various departments of science by a posteriori methods, it may be held to have accomplished its object; but in so far as it claims to have put together a framework of thought commensurate with all the sequences of the cosmos, it must be considered a disjointed structure, from which as yet several connecting parts are missing.
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