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the defeated hopes, the national failures, which result from the frivolous inertia 

 with which it is treated, it is difficult to restrain within oneself a savage rage. In 

 the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute: the race which does not value 

 trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, 

 not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger 

 of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved 

 forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which 

 will then be pronounced on the uneducated " (pp. 27, 28). 



