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It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.
Henry John Stephen Smith
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Henry John Stephen Smith
Age: 56 †
Born: 1826
Born: November 2
Died: 1883
Died: February 9
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Dublin city
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