An assurance, however, of the validity of this supposition is what experience cannot afford us. Grant as much as you please that observation in its ceaseless progress had up to a certain moment only lighted on cases of conformity to the rules which we had inferred from a careful use of earlier perceptions: still the proposition that this accumulation of confirmatory instances, which has so far gone on with out any exception being met with, has...
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