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to have gathered in only the first-fruits of a field which stretches 

 away interminably before it."' 



Under such circumstances, it need hardly be pointed out that 

 a Society such as ours will not, in our time nor in that of our 

 children's children, lack abundant opportunity for useful work; c^nd 

 further, the prosecution of the many branches of science will t-nable 

 us more and more to realise with Schiller : " O wunderschon ist 

 Gottes Erde and schbn auf Thr ein Mensch zu sein." 



