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CHAPTER VI.. Conclusion.

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CONCLUSION.

How was the faculty of abstracting and of generalising constituted? Two principal causes: utility, appearance of inventors.—How has it developed? Three principal directions: practical, speculative, scientific.—Résumé: necessary co-operation of two factors: the one conscious, the other unconscious 216

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