Note 110 — Chapter VII · DEMOCRACY AND STANDARDS

To suppose, as Bacon did, not only that nature is exhaustible, but that it may be exhausted by the accumulated observations of a number of essentially commonplace specialists is to be wrong at the centre. Cf. Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXII: “My way of discovering sciences goes far to level men’s wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence.”