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evidence his supposition that the skull was tenanted during the life 

 of its owner by a bird's nest was as good as mine that the birds had only- 

 sought shelter in the shell of a former intellect. So perhaps if Hamlet 

 had been as observant as an Eskimo he would not have felt warranted 

 in basing a soliloquy upon the probability that intellectual processes 

 had occurred in a single human skull selected at random. 



