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the world at least a little wiser and better than we found it. 

 But in order to success in this effort, we must cultivate other 

 provinces of thought than merely those which belong exclu- 

 sively to the development of our knowledge of the external 

 world. There are other regions of a higher and holier nature, 

 without the cultivation of which no true progress can be 

 made. 



