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even as it has already surrendered three strategic outposts. The 

 field is open, and relatively so little explored that we cannot predict 

 what will be discovered. But we should not be surprised if the next 

 generation should uncover the most exciting and far-reaching de- 

 velopments in the whole history of science. Meanwhile Eutherford, 

 Chadwick, Cockroft, and Walton, Lawrence, Van de Graaff, Bothe, 

 and many others continue the work. They are the modern alchemists, 

 direct descendants of the alchemists of the middle ages and tracing 

 their ancestry back to Hermes and the fallen angels. 



