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 MEMOIRS OF ABERNETHY.

CHAPTER I.

“The Author of Nature appears deliberate through- out His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforchand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.’ —BUTLER’$ ANALOGY.

A ReTROsPecT of the history of human knowledge, offers to our contemplation, few things of deeper interest than the evidence it so repeatedly affords of some great law which regulates the gradual development of truth, and ‘determines the Progress of Scientific Discovery.

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