How to work with the microscope / by Lionel S. Beale.

Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to work with the microscope / by Lionel S. Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    if subordinate, enquiry by many of those who profess to discuss physiological questions philosophically. Some seem to think that considerations about demonstrating anatomical details are beneath the notice of those who aspire to what they themselves call philo- sophical views. If it were possible that truth could be evolved out of a man's understanding, it would be absurd to spend time in making observations which may after all often turn out to be fallacious ; but is not such a notion opposed to all experience ? and is it not certain that real progress in many departments of philosophical enquiry is dependent upon improvement in our methods of working ? z 2