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still greater promise of the experimental method, regard the 

 past achievements of comparative morphology as labor lost, 

 and look forward with indifference to its future. If its present 

 methods are defective, they must be reformed ; but the great 

 body of facts it has accumulated, and will accumulate here- 

 after, will always form the very framework of biological 

 science. 



