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Excerpt from Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other European Languages and Critical Remarks on the Theory and Practice of Swimming and Resuscitation Biography History Bibliography Including Upwards of One Hundred Illustrations Theoretical knowledge is essentially progressive, it suggests new modes of doing everything, modifications and alterations of existing tenets. Practical knowledge alone, unaided by theory, is obstructive to the last degree. Swimming by Sinclair and Henry 1893 p 27. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. Dr Johnson, see Croker's Boswell 1831 vol iii P 240. How many from ignorance of what has been previously written on a subject, have wasted their time and energy on what has been already exhausted. Dr W. A. Copinger Transactions of the Bibliographical Society vol i p 34. After all the help which has been received, and which has contributed so much to the completeness of the Dictionary, the element of time still remains inexorable, it is still, as in the days of Dr Johnson, imperative that limits be set to research, in order that the work may 'in time be ended, though not completed.' Preface to The Oxford English Dictionary 1888 p xiv. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.