Every science may be exhibited under two methods or procedures, the Historical and the Dogmatic. ...The more discoveries are made, the greater becomes the labour of the historical method of study, and the more effectual the dogmatic, because the new conceptions bring forward the earlier ones in a fresh light. ...By the dogmatic method, therefore, must every advanced science be attained, with so much of the historical combined with it as is rendered necessary ...

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Every science may be exhibited under two methods or procedures, the Historical and the Dogmatic. ...The more discoveries are made, the greater becomes the labour of the historical method of study, and the more effectual the dogmatic, because the new conceptions bring forward the earlier ones in a fresh light. ...By the dogmatic method, therefore, must every advanced science be attained, with so much of the historical combined with it as is rendered necessary ..." in the context of "Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842) as quoted in The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853) freely translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau, Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2." to mean that wisdom is timeless.