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tious astronomer does not proclaim these
to the world; and the historian is certainly
not justified in including in his record those
vague speculations founded on incomplete
data which may be demolished to-morrow,
and which, however attractive they may be,
often do more harm than good to the progress
of true science. Meanwhile the accumula-
tion of facts has been prodigious, and the
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