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the observant faculties, the habits of arrangement which it 

 requires, the generalizations to which it leads, the inexhaus- 

 tible pleasures which it affords, and the devotional feelings 

 with which it is associated. We would now wish the reader 

 to regard it in a new light, as affording for the reasoning 

 powers a field for their exertion not less beneficial than other 



Fig. 313 MYLODON. 



departments of science, whose claim to be admitted into our 

 schools and colleges have long since been recognised. As 

 instance of inductive reasoning, we now bring forward P: 

 fessor Owen's admirable memoir on the Mylodon, 



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