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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
— Henry Mayhew
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We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
— Henry Mayhew
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
— Henry Mayhew
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
— Henry Mayhew
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In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
— Henry Mayhew
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
— Henry Mayhew
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