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until he seems to read some truth beneath the phenomena. A trained intelligence will thereupon, no doubt, consider submitting that seeming truth to strict examination; and the first step in which would be a logical analysis of the proposed interpretation. Strict examination is pretty serious business for mere Musement, hard labour for days, at the very, very least; the refreshment of scattered hour-fractions. Let him postpone it, if it interferes with his ample remuneration even in the suggestions that he has not time to examine; especially since a few of them will appeal to his reason as all but

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