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must be confessed that if we knew that the impulse to prefer a given hypothesis really were analogous to the instincts of birds and bees, it would be foolish not to give it to play, within the bounds of reason; especially since we must entertain some hypothesis or else forge all further knowledge than that which we have already gained by that very means only, is there the smallest reason to believe that man has any such magical power of divination? The classical Scotch metaphysicians used to rank intellectual instincts under the head of "common sense"; but would even one of them have had the hardihood to deny that, putting the highest generalities aside, for any ordinary detail of truth a man

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