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the special-creation hypothesis to that limbo where hover the 

 ghosts of the slaughtered theories that were born of man's 

 untutored intelligence in early times. There we may let it 

 abide, along with the vagaries of the astrologists, the doctrine 

 of signatures, the archceus of Paracelsus, the elixir vitce of the 

 alchemists, and the theory of perpetual motion. The space 

 which we have here devoted to it is justified by the vividness 

 with which the discussion has brought before us the contrast 

 between mythology and science, between Anthropomorphism 

 and Cosmism. But in the chapters which are to follow, the 

 question of its merits or demerits will no longer concern us. 



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