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the impression that the mental achievement consisted in drawing the 

 conchision. In fact, the achievement was to bring the two premises 

 under one roof, as it were. The conclusion is merely the offspring of 

 the marriage, arrived at by routine actions. . . . 



. . . [Thus] all revolutionary innovations appear after a while as 

 trivial and obvious, and we marvel less at the discovery itself, than 

 at the apparently abysmal stupidity of the mental stage preceding 

 it: . . . 



