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Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.

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Hugh Elliot
Age: 78 †
Born: 1752
Born: April 6
Died: 1830
Died: December 1
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