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[6]
That this is so is indicated by our thinking of
them as going with certain ages: we say that at such and such an age a man must have got
intelligence and considerateness, which implies that they come by nature.
[Hence Intelligence is both a beginning and an end, for these things are both
the starting-point and the subject matter of demonstration.]1
Consequently the unproved assertions and opinions of experienced and elderly people, or
of prudent men,2 are as much deserving of attention as those which
they support by proof; for experience has given them an eye for things, and so they see
correctly.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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