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of human thought, the sources of the new 

 science that has made a new world are prac- 

 tically ignored. One gets even an impres- 

 sion of neglect in the schools, or at any rate 

 of scant treatment, of the Ionian philoso- 

 phers, the very fathers of your fathers. Few 

 "Greats" men, I fear, could tell why Hip- 

 pocrates is a living force to-day, or why a 

 modern scientific physician Vould feel more 

 at home with Erasistratus and Herophilus 

 at Alexandria, or with Galen atPergamos, 

 than at any period in our story up to, say, 

 Harvey. Except as a delineator of charac- 

 ter, what does the Oxford scholar know of 

 Theophrastus, the founder of modern bot- 

 any, and a living force to-day in one of the 

 two departments of biology, and made ac- 

 cessible to English readers perhaps in- 

 deed to Greek readers ! by Sir Arthur 

 Hort ? ' Beggarly recognition or base indif- 

 ference is meted out to the men whose minds 



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