Countless works in the social sciences reveal the inability of their authors to bear in mind the crucial difference between what may properly be called the logic of discovery and the logic of demonstration. The second isproperlysubjectto rules and prescriptions; the first isn't.
Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration.
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