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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.

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James Joseph Sylvester
Age: 82 †
Born: 1814
Born: September 3
Died: 1897
Died: March 15
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