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those who by dint of that capacity have become 

 great without genius as a birth-gift. 



It is surprising what sparks, nearly as bright as 

 genius, may be struck out by the plain flint-and- 

 steel of persevering, unwearied effort : and I think 

 that all the contributors to this book will have 

 written thus carefully and minutely in their re- 

 spective departments, in the hope that their work 

 may meet Avith many students in whom they could 

 wish for no more hopeful sign than this — " The 

 capacity for taking infinite pains." 



Burton-in-Lonsdale, 1892. 



