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superiorit}^ of the spherical ball is not one that is likely 

 to meet with very general acceptance. 



How far my treatment of the subject has attained 

 a measure of success I must leave to the judgment of 

 my reader. That the deficiencies of this chapter are 

 not few I am fully conscious, in view of the pretensions 

 it must seem to make. The rest of this book, which 

 makes none, may perhaps hope for less critical judgment. 



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