Essays on Life 



be confirmed, doubtless, by arguments clearer 

 and more forcible than any I have been able 

 to adduce ; I shall then be delighted to resign 

 the championship which till then I shall con- 

 tinue, as for some years past, to have much 

 pleasure in sustaining. Heretofore my satis- 

 faction has mainly lain in the fact that more 

 of our prominent men of science have seemed 

 anxious to claim the theory than to refute it ; 

 in the confidence thus engendered I leave it 

 to any fuller consideration which the outline 

 I have above given may incline the reader to 

 bestow upon it. 



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