...Propose to a man any principle, or an instrument, however admirable, and you will observe the whole effort is directed to find a difficulty, a def… - Allan G Bromley

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...Propose to a man any principle, or an instrument, however admirable, and you will observe the whole effort is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.