The writings on invention seem to be of extraordinarily mixed quality. There seems to be no subject in which traditional and uncritical stories, casual rumours, sweeping generalisations, myths and conflicting records more widely abound, in which every man seems to be interested and in which, perhaps because miracles seem to be in the natural order, scepticism is at a discount."
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