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Can we group the observed facts as to their mutual relationships, and reduce them to rules, so that they will indicate their order of occurrence and their causes? Can we discern a system of cause and effect, the past operations of which we can recognize with clearness, whilst we know how it operates at present, N.H.R.-1864. Y |