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Bryan J. Maloney
 
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Phil > nattered on
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> Sounds rather like Soyer's "Pantropheon". What is it about the
> nineteenth century that led to such spotty (I was gonna say feeble, but
> I suppose it's not really pandemic) scholarship? Maybe it's just that
> what we would recognize as the sciences of logic, critical thinking,
> and forensics have evolved over the years


Not in the least. The difference is the matter of focus forced by a "full
field" and standing on the shoulders of giants in the present day. The
19th-century works you scoff at are the foundations of the modern social
sciences.