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In the primitive ages a mere record of events
in the heavens and on the earth gave the
only hope of detecting those uniform se-
quences from which to derive rules or laws
of cause and effect upon which to rely. Then
came the geometrical age, in which rules
were sought by which to predict the move-
ments of heavenly bodies. Later, when the
relation of the sun to the courses of the
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