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some, due weight has not yet been given in biological speculations 1 ), is a question of which, 

 from the quantity and the quality of the facts at my disposal, 1 confess myself unable to 

 offer a satisfactory solution; and, as a slight excuse for my reluctance to generalize, 1 

 bring forward, in conclusion, the following words of a gnat thinker* : — " Genera] obser- 



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vations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great sto 

 in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with ihc greater care and caul ion 

 lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the mater when our stock 



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July (p. 78) 1868. 



With regard to habits, these two animals agree in their mode of procuring food ; and therefore a certain general, 

 and even special, similarity in the structure of their limbs may reasonably be expected ; but, on the other hand, the 

 restricted ant-diet of the sluggish Aard-vark must cause this animal to differ in some points from the omnivorous. 



and Rengger, ' Saugethiere von Paraguay/ \ 

 ipeetive values of hind of food and the manner 



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3 Locke, * On the Conduct of the Understanding.' 



acknowledge here the gr< t obligations 



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