Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a lovestory or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a lovestory or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid." in the context of "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (February 1890)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.