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patriots : Paul Tannery, Pierre Duhem, Gaston 

 Milhaud, Pierre Boutroux, whose admirable works are 

 so often recalled to mind by M. Reymond. The study 

 of the Past seems to be left to lovers of phrases, to 

 devotees of the Verbum oratio who can only conceive 

 a superficial and almost grotesque representation of 

 human nature, but whose influence, preponderant in 

 assemblies which are governed by words, directs our 

 education in a way contrary to the needs of our civiliza- 

 tion and our country. The present generation suffers 

 cruelly for not having listened to Pierre Curie beseech- 

 ing that the teaching of science should be the principal 

 teaching in schools for boys and girls. 1 



Better informed by their own history, the future 

 representatives of Science will understand, and will 

 make those around them understand, that those alone 

 whose works witness to the sincerity of their attach- 

 ment to the Verbum ratio are the lawful heirs of the 

 Hellenic wisdom in its true and most truly beautiful 

 form. 



LEON BRUNSCHVICG 



1 Pierre Curie, by Madame Curie. Paris, Payot, 1924, p. 98. 



