g" (28) in examining the fingerprint records. Wilson's records are key to exposing the identity switch that underlies the plot, but their keeper is not certain what he seeks -- though nature has left the clues. The scientist is limited in his knowledge of natural facts, and can only interpret what has been left for him. In the character of Wilson, Twain demystifies science as an objective endeavor, showing it instead as a subjective, human field.
             Throughout the novel, it is nature that is the only presence to of
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