An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism #268402

There is no term, perhaps, which has been more frequently and more grossly abused and misapplied than that of Science. The word, in its proper and legitimate sense, unquestionably denotes something known, or, at least, something worthy of being known; and it is generally, and most correctly, employed to denote a series of combined facts which tend to establish a certain general law, or series of laws, of Nature, either in the physical, the intellectual, or the moral world.