Three centuries of increasingly intense application of the quantitative method had exhausted its guarantee of the progressive improvement of thought,… - Lancelot Law Whyte

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Three centuries of increasingly intense application of the quantitative method had exhausted its guarantee of the progressive improvement of thought, because the regions where the method is adequate have already been explored. [...] It is scarcely possible to avoid the conclusion that a new method is now necessary to supplement the method of quantitative analysis. (p. 180)