This also explains how it is that truths which have been recognised are at first tacitly admitted, and then gradually spread, so that the very thing which was obstinately denied appears at last as something quite natural.
This also explains how it is that truths which have been recognised are at first tacitly admitted, and then gradually spread, so that the very thing which was obstinately denied appears at last as something quite natural.
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- Maxims and Reflections (1906)
Printed maxim 531; Bailey Saunders English translation, New York: The Macmillan Company,1906
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- c. 1790 AD · early modern
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