234° TIMEHRI. * 
or that, as some members have done, is simply absurd an 
useless, as an essential principle of every associa ion 
that it is composed of members, who can, if they will 
mould it to a great extent according to their wishes. It 
this case we may presume, as in everything else, t : 
fittest has survived and the weakest gone to the wall. 
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