"It was not the thinking and the speculation that led to the voyages of discovery ?" "Ah, my dear sir," Ernest smiled, "I thought you were disqualified.

You have not yet picked out the flaw in my definition of philosophy.

You are now on an unsubstantial basis.

But it is the way of the metaphysicians, and I forgive you.

No, I repeat, metaphysics had nothing to do with it.