s sooner at the capital both are going to. And unless I
misread the matter, such was often the case with early knowledge. At
any rate before a complete theory of 'verifiable progress' could be
made, it would have to be settled whether this is so or not, and the
conditions of the development of physical science would have to be
fully stated; obviously you cannot explain the development of human
comfort unless you know the way in which men learn and discover
comfortable things. Then again, for a complete discussion, whether of
progress or degradation, a whole course of analysis is necessary as to
the effect of natural agencies on man, and of change in those agencies.
But upon these I cannot touch; the only way to solve these great
problems is to take them separately. I only profess to explain what
seem to me the political prerequisites of progress, and especially of
early progress, I do this the rather because the subject is
insufficiently examined, so that even if my views are found to be
faulty, the discussion upon them may bring out others which are truer
and better.

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