IVHAT SCIENTISTS SAID 



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Livingstone, Wallace, Merrian, Bates, Whymper, Conway and Hedin are re- 

 called. 



"Conway, practically alone in the great Andes, Wallace living with the 

 head-hunting Dyaks of Borneo, Bates for a decade on the upper Amazon, Sven 

 Hedin courting instant death if detected on the march toward Lassa, these 

 and many others like them, not only met and conquered as great dangers and 

 for far greater lengths of time than did Cook or Peary," added the doctor; 

 "but they contributed vastly to the sum of useful human knowledge. 



"Yet I would not take one iota of credit or glory from Cook or Peary, if 

 I had that power. The qualities of indomitable courage and tireless persever- 

 ance that have won them these great successes are becoming too rare among 

 us, we who are so greatly given over to half-baked and transient effort, to 

 hysteric admiration and interests, and to the softening and often ignoble chase 

 after the elusive dollar." 



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