Edmund Burke Quotes

A Definition May Be Very Exact, And Yet Go But A Very Little Way Towards Informing Us Of The Nature Of The Thing Defined; But Let The Virtue Of A Definition Be What It Will, In The Order Of Things, It Seems Rather To Follow Than To Precede Our Enquiry, Of Which It Ought To Be Considered As The Result. It Must Be Acknowledged That The Methods Of Disquisition And Teaching May Be Sometimes Different And On Very Good Reason Undoubtedly; But For My Part, I Am Convinced That The Method Of Teaching Which Approaches Most Nearly To The Method Of Investigation, Is Incomparably The Best; Since Not Content With Serving Up A Few Barren And Lifeless Truths, It Leads To The Stock On Which They Grew; It Tends To Set The Reader Himself In The Track Of Invention, And To Direct Him Into Those Paths In Which The Author Has Made His Own Discoveries, If He Should Be So Happy As To Have Made Any That Are Valuable.

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