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character at once common and peculiar to them; whence it follows that there must be as many independent characters in the universe as there are of possible single things, reckoning any singular and any part of it as two distinct things. Evidently, there must be quite as many logically simple hypotheses to explain any given phenomenon. Now well-known facts enable us to assert that of corpuscles of atoms, alone, there are more than 1064 in the visible universe. But 1014, being the number of seconds in three millions of years, must exceed the number of independent hypotheses that mankind could ever yet have lit upon since our differentiation from the apes.

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character at once common and peculiar to them; whence it follows that there must be as many independent characters in the universe as there are of possible single things, reckoning any singular and any part of it as two distinct things. Evidently, there must be quite as many logically simple hypotheses to explain any given phenomenon. Now well-known facts enable us to assert that of corpuscles of atoms, alone, there are more than 1064 in the visible universe. But 1014, being the number of seconds in three millions of years, must exceed the number of independent hypotheses that mankind could ever yet have lit upon since our differentiation from the apes.

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