43 Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth. The growing child is wise in this sense. 44 Theory is in itself of no use, except in so far as it makes us believe in the connection of phenomena. 45 When a man asks too much and delights in complication, he is exposed to perplexity. 46 Thinking by means of analogies is not to be condemned. Analogy has this advantage, that it comes to no conclusion, and does not, in truth, aim at finality at all. Induction, on the contrary, is fatal, for it sets up an object and keeps it in view, and, working on towards it, drags
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