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of the ancients about the solar system, are
apt to be harmful to true progress of knowl-
edge unless in the hands of the ablest math-
ematical physicists; and Herschel violated
their principles in other directions. But here
his speculations have attracted a great deal
of attention, and, with modifications, are
accepted, at least as a working hypothesis,
by a fair number of people.
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