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if we could suppose such progress in this science 

 within the bounds of probability, we must believe 

 that the arts of concealment, deception, and 

 every concomitant of artifice and false refinement 

 will, at the same time, make equal progress, and 

 thus leave us in the same relative situation as at 

 present. 



