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facts from new points of view, as much as
by the accumulation of facts. The mental
capacity of one age does not seem to differ
from that of other ages; but it is the imag-
ination of new points of view that gives a
wider scope to that capacity. And this is cu-
mulative, and therefore progressive. Aristo-
tle viewed the solar system as a geometrical
problem; Kepler and Newton converted the
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