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for experience is
the fruit of years.1 （One might indeed further enquire why it is that, though a
boy may be a mathematician, he cannot be a metaphysician or a natural philosopher.2 Perhaps the answer is that Mathematics deals with abstractions, whereas the
first principles of Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy are derived from experience: the
young can only repeat them without conviction of
their truth,3 whereas the
formal concepts of Mathematics are easily understood.）
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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