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Excerpt from Paradoxes of Nature and Science: Things Which Appear to Contradict General Experience or Scientific Principles, With Popular Explanations of the How and Why Nature is a great conjurer. With many of her tricks we are so familiar that they do not astonish us; but on giving them a little consideration we often find that they are really very puzzling performances, and we become as eager to learn the explanation as children at a Christmas conjuring party to hear the performer's account of how he does it, or children of an older growth to learn from the political prestidigitator at the head of the opposite party how he reconciles his action with his principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.