Capitolo 71
investigating, inquisitorial I can say also insulting, questions with which a
modern man of science is ready to attack the truthful and honorable one
gentlemen that risk him to affirm their discovery in these degenerate ones,
days, of the I toad-in-a-puncture ancient and not sophisticated.
Now, the worse one of him is that the gentlemen in question, being little relative
with that of which is technically described as scientific methods
investigation, is very proper to lose their temperament when this way
cross-questioned, and to answer, after the way usually attributed to
the mind female, with another question if the scientific person
it desires to accuse them to decidedly lie. And as nothing on the earth was able
is further from the mind of the scientific person that such charge, him
it is fain in the end to usually abdicate the social search of postprandial
natural history (the subject generally cut-off on around the same duration as
the coffee of later-supper), and to let the prehistoric toad go alone
triumphant way, unnoticed.
As a matter of fact, anybody never ago the greatest checks for other
people, in the respect of their truthfulness that the scientific one
inquiring. Knowing himself/herself/itself, from painful experience as extremely
difficult a matter is to perfectly make sure you you/he/she has observed
anything on the earth rather correctly, and you/he/she has eliminated entirely possible
the opportunities of error, he acquires the fixed habit to doubt around one-mean
of whatever his/her individual-creatures tell him in conversation the agenda,
without for an only moment that risks him to suspect them of deliberate
falsehood. Children and servants, if theirs find that their anything
you/he/she has been said it is wrong, immediately jumps to the conclusion that the
person that told them wanted to intentionally say to deceive them; in them really
simple and categorical way to which they plumply responds, 'That is a lie.' But
the man of science is only too well informed in his/her his/her own person with
the difficulty that exceeds of never to get to the exact truth. He has