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mental wilderness and planted the flag of genuine science upon it. He 

 was an enormous collector. He introduced for the first time com- 

 parison, classification, and serial order into the peculiar kind of fact 

 which he collected. He was a genius at perceiving analogies; he was 

 fertile in hypotheses; and as far as conditions allowed it in this 

 meteoric region, he relied on verification. Such advantages are of no 

 avail, however, if one has struck into a false road from the outset. But 

 should it turn out that Frederic Myers has really hit the right road by 

 his divining instinct, it is certain that, like the names of others who 

 have been wise, his name will keep an honorable place in scientific 

 history. 



