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the sciences–exact in its facts, exact in its
logic–this speculation must be recorded by
the historian, only as he records the guesses
of the ancient Greeks–as an interesting phase
in the history of human thought.
Other hypotheses, having the same end
in view, are the meteoritic hypothesis of
Lockyer and the planetesimal hypothesis that
has been largely developed in the United
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