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this spot than the Atlantic. We are purblind 

 citizens all of us ; apt to dogmatise largely upon 

 an uncommonly small substratum of knowledge. 

 Like the moles and the blindworms we know 

 remarkably well the few inches that we can 

 actually feel and touch; but with regard to what 

 John Locke calls " the rest of the vast expan- 

 sum," that we give up to fog and practical 

 non-existence, thereby saving ourselves from the 

 trouble of knowing anything about it. 



