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So it is with modern science. For centuries it had to grope its pur blind way through dense jungles of superstitious ignorance, where misty shapes of theological and metaphysical speculation obscured the real facts of the universe, or were mistaken for them. At length, and comparatively quite recently, the human intellect emerged into the light of day, and gaining the first heights, began to acquire accurate ideas of the true laws and constitution of the universe. The progress, once begun, went on at an accelerated rate, until in the last half century it has carried with it in an impetuous torrent Old creeds and cherished convictions, like so much drift-wood floating on the surface of Lake Erie, when caught by the cur rent which hurries it down the Falls of Niagara.
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