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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.

THOMAS srENcEn BAyNEs, LID.

THOMAS srENCER BAYNEs, il. D.
Professor Of Logic Rhetoric and Metaphysics in the CnNr
sity Of S. Andrews.
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