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inevitable and such as would be within the grasp of the though which for the mement occupies the same theatre. From this dispute there will ultimately emerge a final definite opinion due to a new way of concieving the facts.
So at least the disputants hope and trust and so we find it.
The first unreflective view so far as it not the mere accident of individual caprice or of a singular individual ill-luck is allowed to have a certain legitimacy but the new [con?gation] alone puts the matter in a scientific light.
It must be acknowledged that if this method of thought can be carried out it is the best possible.
It must represent the history of though too as far as that history is not merely accidental.
Next considering the immense multitude of minds and that it is the normal minds who are influential the history of thought can hardly be very seriously accidental.
It is true that there will be in history perturbation due to the fact that all minds are not at exactly