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Excerpt from The Physiological Laws of Human Increase
Certainly a well-arranged and most comprehensive science has already been reared, but it is destined to attain proportions much more gigantic than it now presents. If the theory of human increase about to be proposed is found to have a sure basis in the great laws of Physiology, it will be difficult to find language adequate to express the value of the principles involved, or the extent of their application. It approaches the subject from a point of view which has not hitherto been taken, and which opens a field of inquiry so new, so vast, and so complicated, that one almost shrinks from the undertaking. The most that any single individual can do in such a field, is to throw a mere pebble into the great ocean of truth.
In entering, therefore, upon an examination of this question, it becomes the inquirer to suspend his Opinion till he can Obtain a sufficient accumulation of facts and knowledge on the subject, so that he can form some rational and correct judgment as to their relative bearing, and the support they give to this or that theory. No prejudice or pre-conceived Opinions should be allowed to stand in the way of coming to a fair and intelligent decision. But, in order to do this properly, some general knowledge -- and the more profound the better -- Of the facts and laws of physi ology is indispensable. Guided by the true Baconian spirit of philosophy, and after a thorough investigation of the whole sub ject, it may be expected we shall then arrive at some enlightened and satisfactory results in the extensive field of investigation.
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