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result, giving no reason whatever why a thousand atoms of hydrogen should not combine with a thousand and one of chlorine. But on turning back to Galileo's famous dialogue, I saw what he meant by a "simple" hypothesis was one which is facile and natural to the mind of man. I then remarked that the chemists, too, who have always found the Daltonian theory so satisfactory must have meant that it renders simple multiple proportions a Plausible idea, and not that it tends to necessitate those proportions.

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