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    Chauncey Wright

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    And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. ↗


    — Chauncey Wright

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    Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. ↗


    — Chauncey Wright

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    The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. ↗


    — Chauncey Wright

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    The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗


    — Chauncey Wright

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    We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. ↗


    — Chauncey Wright

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    In 1872 Wright helped found The Metaphysical Club with other Harvard intellectuals such as Charles Sanders Peirce William James and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Although in general he adhered to the evolution theory he was a free-lancer in thought. In 1852 he graduated at Harvard and became computer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.

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