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CONCLUSIONS 



One of the great mistakes of our time is the 

 general promulgation of the idea that most 

 everything is known. It prompts students to 

 go to the books and to consult authorities, 

 when instead they would do more wisely to go 

 to nature for the facts. The notions concern- 

 ing our great wisdom spring from the compari- 

 son of today with the past. Comparatively 

 much is known. But an infinite amount re- 

 mains yet to be learned ! When future wisdom 

 looks back upon us, it shall see us groping and 

 struggling for the great truths hidden in the 

 world of nature about us; and in the light of 

 what is yet to come we shall seem ignorant and 

 benighted. 



Science must go on and on, seeking for 

 more. It is the lack of knowledge that makes 

 the world unhappy, not the converse. In the 

 pursuit of knowledge concerning the human 



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