All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one cer...tain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be caused by nothing huma...n, but by some external permanency, by something upon which our thinking has no effect.... It must be something which affects, or might affect, every man. And though these affections are necessarily as various as are individual conditions, yet the method must be such that the ultimate conclusion of every man shall be the same, or would be the same if inquiry were persisted in. Such is the method of science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider what effects which might conceivably have practical bearings we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then our c...onception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place, There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face...;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;<...br />And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville--Mighty Casey has struck out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »