"The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race."
— Truth

January 1, 1970

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Ernst Mach, Introduction, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development (1893) p. 1, Tr. Thomas J. McCormack.