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his parents only stimulated him in his ef-
forts to overcome difficulties. He soon grasped
the hopelessness of the old deductive meth-
ods of reasoning, and decided that no the-
ories ought to be indulged in until prepara-
tions had been made by the accumulation
of accurate observations. We may claim for
him the title of founder of the inductive
method.
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