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At the best, the student of proleptics will anticipate paralysis, premature senility, and asthenic apoplexy towards middle life, when he finds the pulse feeble, and the spirits correspondingly low in youth, unless remedial measures be adopted in good time, and persevered in with due diligence.
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Of course the science of proleptics recognises no mysterious or supernatural agency more than is recognised in astronomy, or any other natural science; it is founded altogether on the observation of phenomena, with a special reference to the order in which they arise.
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The periodical character of her nervous paroxysm, and the aggravation of the dynamic phenomena at some periods, show that both alike belong to the science of Proleptics.
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The desire to know definitely and presciently is also one of the most urgent of the instincts proper of man; it leads him on to the most mystical speculations as to the future, and is the orectic basis of all the arts of divination, as well as of scientific Proleptics or anticipation of the order of nature.
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