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applying all the instruments of modern re-
search to find out which of these supposi-
tions, or what modification of any of them,
is nearest the truth. The obstacle–one that
is perhaps fatal to a real theory–lies in the
impossibility of reproducing comparative ex-
periments in our laboratories or in our at-
mosphere.
Sir William Herschel propounded an ex-
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