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most interesting books that was ever writ-
                                         ten, combining wit, imagination, ingenuity,
                                         and certainty.
                                            Lastly, it must be noted that, as a His-
                                         tory of England cannot deal with the present
                                         Parliament, so also the unfinished researches
                                         and untested hypotheses of many well-known
                                         astronomers of to-day cannot be included
                                         among the records of the History of Astron-
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