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...theory. The men of experiment are like the ant — they only collect and use. The theorists are like the spiders who make cobwebs out of their own substance....gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests them by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business...

...on one side and the men of experiment and the men of dogma on the other. "The men of experiment are like the ant ; they, only collect and use : the reasoners...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history...

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...spider ; they make intellectual cobwebs out of their present possessions. The bee rightly takes the middle course : it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but it transforms them by a power of its own. The composition which unites the past and...

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