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be ever with us that we are likely to remain ignorant of 

 the primary causes which determine and regulate the more 

 apparent laws of likeness. We may thus scarcely hope to 

 reach that "law within the law" which operates through 

 the medium of secondary laws and ascertainable conditions. 

 But it should form at the same time no mean consolation, 

 that we have been able to approach, theoretically at least, 

 towards an understanding of one of the commonest, but at 

 the same time most abstruse, parts of the puzzle of life. 



