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cheering to see how, with increasing knowledge, the most extreme views have been 

 graduall}- converging in the same direction. This condition of things excites a 

 strong hope, that, ultimately, all diflerences among naturalists respecting classi- 

 fication may be settled; when the conformity of views will itself become an 

 additional evidence that the system exists in nature, and not in the minds of 

 those who have contributed to decipher it. 



