Quote: constancy and stability has a lasting advantage over the slow improvements of gradual correction

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It has been asserted, that for the law to be known, is of more importance than to be right. Change, says Hooker, is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. There is in constancy and stability a general and lasting advantage, which will always overbalance the slow improvements of gradual correction.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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