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progress, which governs all human approaches towards perfec- 
afew more trials might have ascertained it. Cuvier had been — 
even experiments were not unknown to the ancient philosophers, : 
tions of political economy were laid by Hume and Smith, a great 
step had 1 been made by the French philosophers, disciples of 
