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And when the sciences are nobler and more
dignified, the nobler and more dignified are their subjects; for as is the
science, so is the truth which is its object, and each science prescribes that
which properly belongs to it; and, by analogy, the nobler and more dignified the
objects of a science, the nobler and more dignified is the science itself, for
the same reasons.
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