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studies and concerning the researches of others, soon confirmed me in this opinion. Their array, when my logic-book comes out, will convince everybody. But no! I am forgetting those who are clad in an armour impenetrable to accurate thought. They may conceive my proposition to involve a denial of the laws of association, or of their rigidity. It would be no weaker than one can often hear. But if right, it follows at once that man has a divinatory power, primary or derived;—a power not, indeed, sufficient to make his first conjecture usually right, yet sufficient to make the number of wrong guesses, before the right one is hit upon, quite small.

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