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not strictly infinite, can certainly not be fewer than a million of millions. It is true that for definite reasons, a large proportion of them may at once be discarded in a body. But this is only because of former inquiries, made in the days, by no means prehistoric, when chemists could surmise that the results of the laboratory experiments might depend upon the angular distances between planets; and it remains true that between primitive man and the truth there lay more of these obstructions than there has been time to make any serious inroad upon since man learned articulate

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