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up through all the appraisals of Plausibility to uncontrollable inclination to belief. This whole course of thought, from the notice of the wonderful phenomenon, the search for pertinent circumstances, scrutiny of them, pondering over them, the breaking out of the startling conjecture, the remarking of its peculiar lock-and-key correspondence to the anomaly, and the adoption of the Hypothesis on probation as Plausible, I reckon as composing the First Stage of Inquiry