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much perseverance and patience. It is true that it leads with 
certainty to a result ; and this is its good side; but the diffi- 
cult conditions which it imposes are so many obstacles which 
— its being generally followed, except by the highest in- 
tellects. : 
where he constantly met with some important discovery. 
Such a method, if indeed it can be called one, although bar- 
ren and even dangerous with mediocre minds, produced great 
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to see, and not seeing what he di ; 
_ The works which have issued from his brain, so well organ- 
