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240, we are inclined to think that their hopes are not soon to be realized;—already its electric force appears to be nearly exhausted, and the time cannot be far distant when of all their proud schemes nothing will be left but the "baseless fabric of a vision." Sometimes fragments may be saved from empirical wrecks that may be turned to some good account, but we can see nothing in all this that is worth preserving.