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not have predicted, this constitutes a residual phenomenon, 

 requiring further study for the purpose of explanation; and we 

 must either search among the circumstances of the particular 

 case until we find one which, on the principles of our existing 

 theory, accounts for the unexplained phenomenon, or we must 

 turn back, and seek the explanation by an extension and im- 

 provement of the theory itself. 



