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vi   PERSISTENCE   9 9

thread, can easily be traced and identified in both. Therefore, in speaking of the persistence of the marks on the finger, the phrase must be taken to apply principally to the minutiae, and to the general character of the pattern ; not to the measure of its length, breadth, or other diameter ; these being no more constant than the stature, or any other of the ordinary anthropometric data.


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