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invitation stimulated them to under- \ of the leading thinkers of the world, 

 take the task. Such work is too easily j But we hope that still more important 

 postponed. And thus the congress may I than the set addresses will be the living 

 hope to create in these hundreds of ad- influence of this gathering, in which the 



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dresses a connected and consistent work 

 which no chance group of individuals 

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four or five hundred invited official 

 speakers and chairmen, together with 

 the thousand who may make shorter 



a unified program and the enthusiasm | communications, will form merely the 



