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subject, for the sake of completely satisfying myself
my own mind about it, for 50 or 51 years. To be sure, I
have, some half dozen times during the half-century,
let my mind lie fallow, as to this subject, during one or
two dozens of months, hoping so to rid myself of any inveterate
bad habits of thinking that I may have insensibly
have fallen into. I have six times published my views
(in 1867, 1869, 1878, 1882, 1892, and 1902 in 1867, -69, -78, -82, -92, and 1902.) The last of those publications,
compared with my present abridged brief abstract,