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of mine calls them positive facts, but I say facts are facts. If we collect 
facts, and not speculations, — undoubted facts, — we may perhaps in time be 
able to draw certain positive conclusions, but as long as we are merely pains- 
taking observers of facts we are not in a position to draw conclusions. I am 
very much obliged to you for the way in which my paper has been received. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
