The early history of physical knowledge, of Greek conceptions of natural phenomena, proves how inept become the conceptions of the best endowed minds when those ideas are elaborated apart from the closest contact with the events which they purport to state and explain.
Dewey reflects on the historical inadequacies of scientific understanding when divorced from practical experience.
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