In the interest of sound knowledge it is essential to narrow to the utmost the debatable territory; to see how many ascertained facts there are which are consistent with all theories, how many may, as foreign lawyers would phrase it, be equally held in condominium by them.
Bagehot emphasizes the importance of narrowing down debatable topics to focus on established facts in knowledge.
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