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INDUCTION. 



being, from the very nature of the case, inefficient and illu- 

 sory, there remains only the third, that which considers the 

 causes separately, and infers the effect from the balance 

 of the different tendencies which produce it : in short, the 

 deductive, or a priori method. The more particular con- 

 sideration of this intellectual process requires a chapter to 

 itself. 



