There is no department of inquiry in which it is not full as easy to miss truth as to find it, even when the materials from which truth is to be drawn are actually present to our senses.
Harriet Martineau
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- How to Observe: Morals and Manners, Introduction (1838); Read title page and opening introduction through discussion of premature generalizations, pp1–7. Complete opening sentence in author’s prose, not the Advertisement or epigraphs. Preserves original “full as easy.” Public-domain English.
- How to Observe: Morals and Manners, Introduction (1838)
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