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present; in any case the "practical results" are only the by- 

 products of the advance of science. The men who carried on 

 this work were in pursuit of truth. Theirs was the joy of dis- 

 covery, of the enlargement, in however small a way, of the 

 boundaries of human knowledge, of the ability to say, with 

 Shakespeare's soothsayer 



"In Nature's infinite book of secrecy 

 A little I can read." 



