The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
