Francis Bacon: It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done exc

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which — Francis Bacon

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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