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    Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained—a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.
    —Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)

    For in the air all lovers meet
    After they’ve hated out their love....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)