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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Science of Thought |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1887 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 664 pages |
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