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POPULAK SCIENCE EE VIEW. 
intellectual organ itself. At first, as in the case of ancient 
glaciers, through sheer want of capacity, the mind refuses to 
take in revealed facts. But by degrees the steady contempla- 
tion of these facts so strengthens and expands the intellectual 
powers, that where truth once could not find an entrance it 
eventually finds a home . — A Lecture delivered before the Royal 
Institution , June 9, 1876. 
