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ORIGIN AND DISTEIBUTION OP MAN. 



[Ch. XLIII. 



readied in the scale of being lias been gained step bj step 

 bj a conscientious study of natural pbenomena, and by 

 fearlessly teaching the doctrines to which they point. It is 

 by faithfully weighing evidence, without regard to precon- 

 ceived notions, by earnestly and patiently searching for what 

 is true, not what we wish to be true, that we have attained 



may m vam hope to claim 



rank of an ideal parentage 



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