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During the opposition of 1881-2 the same observer re-observed the canals, and in twenty of them he found the canals duplicated, the second canal being always 200 to 400 miles distant from its fellow. The existence of these canals has been doubted. Mr.
He attacked these "adventurous syntheses, these superb and supposedly philosophic deductions," all the more eagerly because he himself had an unshakable faith in the absolute certainty of his own discoveries, and because he asserted the reality of things only after he had observed and re-observed them to satiety.
Even the two first remained unseen save by himself until 1828, when his son re-observed them with a 20-foot reflector, similar to that with which they had been originally discovered. Thenceforward they were kept fairly within view, but their four questionable companions, in spite of some false alarms of detection, remained in the dubious condition in which Herschel had left them.
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