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Leslie Stephen

The fool who does not know his own folly may be doing nothing, and the philosopher who is trying to darken knowledge may be doing worse than nothing; but every sincere attempt to grapple with real difficulties made by a man not utterly incompetent has its value.

Leslie Stephen, from his preface to The Science of Ethics (1882).

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