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detect where their knowledge was less extensive than ours and their 

 theories proportionally defective. These are the simultaneous stages of 

 error and amending progress in human comprehension of the outer world 

 and its multitudinous possibilities. Such too exist in our own epoch, and 

 it may be that our successors a couple of hundred years hence, or perhaps 

 in less time, will recognise more clearly than we, who are among the 

 eddies, can do, what a transitory stage it was, if ever they think about it 

 at all. " Let time shape, and there an end." 



K 



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