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ception of scientific inquiry has done its work, and that 

 science has now advanced into a higher stage ; there are pro 

 bably many to whom such remarks as the foregoing may still 

 be useful. In an age in which chemistry itself, when attempt 

 ing to deal with the more complex chemical sequences, those 

 of the animal or even the vegetable organism, has found 

 it necessary to become, and has succeeded in becoming, a 

 Deductive Science it is not to be apprehended that any 

 person of scientific habits, who has kept pace with the 

 general progress of the knowledge of nature, can be in danger 

 of applying the methods of elementary chemistry to explore 

 the sequences of the most complex order of phenomena in 

 existence. 



