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decided; though the strong affinity between games and puzzles goes to confirm the latter argument. Provisionally, the subject of Games may be introduced here. Many games are exclusively dependent upon chance, which seems, at first sight, to favor putting them here. But not to speak of the fact that those who love such games are apt to fancy that the result depends upon some gift of the player, it is to be remembered that the passion for such games is traditional (if not hereditary) from an age when mental power and the favor of higher powers (as the Muse, in the case of poets) were confounded, and when luck would be reckoned as a sort of genius. Ancient authors always reckon a general's luck as a part of his ability. Why should it not, then, be exercized like any other activity? Games not principally of chance are divisible into those in which muscular strength is a large factor, those which are chiefly intel-