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should have his chance, and elementary education would ensure that 

 the small percentage of the population with any special aptitude or 

 desire to excel should not be lost for want of opportunity. No one 

 can guess where exceptional endowment may be found, but whether 

 in the cottage or palace, whether choked in luxury or starved in 

 poverty, it is the duty and interest of the community to discover the 

 potential genius and to place hitn where he can accomplish that 

 for which he is fitted. In science a full output is expected; one 

 may work overtime ; and there are none of the suppressing restric- 

 tions of a false communistic socialism or cramping of individual 

 effort. Pre-eminence is accepted and encouraged, for it is ob- 

 vious that one star differs from another in glory. We can all 

 contribute to progress, even if we differ in opportunity and mental 

 equipment, and in all cases we very soon realize the breadth of the 

 old saying: "Magna opera Domini; exquisita in omnes voluntates. 

 ejus." 



[M. G.] 



