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The extreme of neither argument will bear examination. 

 On the one hand, it is impossible to admit that we ai-e to be 

 tied down to every point precisely as known to Moore ; and 

 it is simply an egregious mi.stake to argue, as some have done, 

 that the points as described by old authors were always the 



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result of careful study, and deliberate, fixed determination. 

 This j)osition has been assumed by more than one advocate of 

 the old-fashioned Jacobin; but it is, on the contrary, as certain 

 as anything can be that many of the varieties were far from 

 settled in Moore's time, and that a general consensus of opinion 

 had hardly begun to exist. The Carrier has been not only 

 lengthened in face, but far improved ■ in other properties, since 

 Moore's time ; and who would go back to his standard, or even 

 that of "Mayor," for the Almond Tumbler? As rega,rds the 



