I should have to put them; for, though the meanings are perhaps right, they are only hypothetical, and may be wrong; and then, through a very imperceptible, but still very dangerous, because continual, influence, they do great injury to science by contracting... Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839 - Page 198by Michael Faraday - 1839Full view - About this book
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...they give rise to false impressions : — " through a very imperceptible but still very dangerous, because continual influence, they do great injury...contracting and limiting the habitual views of those pursuing it " (Faraday) ; " those wlio are not familiar with a subject are very liable to be misled... | |
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