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a hypothesis, which must be subjected to a critical examination consisting in Deduction followed by Induction. Nor could self-conceit go further than to undertake to deduce how the Creator,—even were He finite,—must behave. Could I so much as enter a room where two chess-players were contending for the "championship" of the world, as they call it, and presume to discern their reasons for their moves? Not I. Yet what are they? Men who prefer chess to mathematics!

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