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test ever since, and so far it has stood the
test. There has often been a suspicion of a
doubt, when some inequality of motion in
the heavenly bodies has, for a time, foiled
the astronomers in their attempts to ex-
plain it. But improved mathematical meth-
ods have always succeeded in the end, and
so the seeming doubt has been converted
into a surer conviction of the universality
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