Step by step, before the advance of science, they have been driven back.

As fast as the ascertained facts of science have overthrown their subjective explanations of things, they have made new subjective explanations of things, including explanations of the latest ascertained facts.

And this, I doubt not, they will go on doing to the end of time.

Gentlemen, a metaphysician is a medicine man.
The difference between you and the Eskimo who makes a fur-clad blubber-eating god is merely a difference of several thousand years of ascertained facts.

That is all." "Yet the thought of Aristotle ruled Europe for twelve centuries," Dr.
Ballingford announced pompously.