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write not to convince, but to excite to inquiry. We ask 

 our readers not for belief, but for doubt of their own infalli- 

 bility on this question ; we ask for inquiry and patient 

 experiment before hastily concluding that we are, all of us, 

 mere dupes and idiots as regards a subject to which we have 

 devoted our best mental faculties and powers of observation 

 for many years. 



