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the influence they have on the movements of our world and 

 on each other, and to discover the substances of which they 

 are composed ; may we not fairly hope that similar methods 

 of research to those which have taught us so much may give 

 our race farther information, until problems relating not only 

 to remote worlds, but possibly to organic and sentient beings 

 which may inhabit them problems which it might now seem 

 wildly visionary to enunciate may be solved by progressive 

 improvements in the modes of applying observation and 

 experiment, induction and deduction ? 



