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human race, as of the individual.
In no realm of nature is the principle
of cause and effect more conspicuous than
in astronomy; and we fall into the habit of
thinking of its laws as not only being un-
changeable in our universe, but necessary to
the conception of any universe that might
have been substituted in its place. The first
inhabitants of the world were compelled to
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