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creates knowledge, and the knowledge which he gath- 

 ers is not a precious thing for himself alone, but 

 rather a treasure which by being shared grows ; if it 

 is given away it loses nothing of its value to the first 

 discoverer, but acquires a different value and a greater 

 usefulness that it adds to the total resources of the 

 world. The time will come, I hope, when it will be 

 generally understood that the investigators and think- 

 ers of the world are those upon whom the world 

 chiefly depends. I should like, indeed, to live to a 

 time when it will be universally recognised that the 

 military man and the government-maker are types 

 which have survived from a previous condition of 

 civilisation, not ours ; and when they will no longer 

 be looked upon as the heroes of mankind. In that 

 future time those persons who have really created 

 our civilisation will receive the acknowledgment which 

 is their due. Let these thoughts dwell long in your 

 meditation, because it is a serious problem in all our 

 civilisation to-day how to secure due appreciation of 

 the value of thought and how to encourage it. I 

 believe every word spoken in support of that great 

 recognition which is due to the power of thought is 

 a good word and will help forward toward good 

 results. 



In all that I have said, you will recognise that I 

 have spoken constantly of the condition of the living 

 material. If it is in the young state it has one set of 

 capacities. If it is differentiated, it has, according to 

 the nature of its differentiation, other kinds of capa- 



