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of reasoning.
Here we come to a question concerning which every upto date philosopher of today, though he may incline to one opinion or another, feels uncertain.
It is the question of the connection of soul and body.
I will say a few words about it, in order to make it clear to you precisely what the question is.

During the last three centuries the positions of planets and comets have constantly observed with precision; and it has invariably been remarked that when any two of them have happened to come near to one another, the motions of the two but especially that of the smaller one have recieved component accelerations towards each other.
Now nobody thinks or can think, that that has been a mere coincidence.
For seven generations have watched the planets since propounded the general formula which has never failed to express just the amount of that acceleration.
The sense of that formula is not a thing, nor is it any existing fact about things; because it expressed what things will do as well as what they have done.
Some formulae have proved merely depressions of how facts have happened express mere coincidences; for when predictions were pased upon them, those predictions were often falsified.
This formula on the other hand, has