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sent the supremest efforts of modern scholastic as- 

 tronomy. Their very multiplicity is, of itself, in my 

 judgment, the sufficient proof of their unsatisfactoriness 

 and unsoundness, and demonstrates the urgent need of a 

 cosmic philosophy big enough and broad enough to in- 

 clude the entire physical universe under one clear, con- 

 sistent, dynamical generalization, and in which practical 

 common sense shall count for more than baseless assump- 

 tions and frenzied speculation. 



