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The story of the free cities of Greece 

 shows how a love of the higher and brighter 

 things in life may thrive in a democracy. 

 Whether such love may develop in a civi- 

 lization based on a philosophy of force is the 

 present problem of the Western world. To- 

 day there are doubts, even thoughts of de- 

 spair, but neither man nor nation is to be 

 judged by the behaviour in a paroxysm of 

 delirium. Lavoisier perished in the Revo- 

 lution, and the Archbishop of Paris was 

 butchered at the altar by the Commune, yet 

 France was not wrecked ; and Russia may 

 survive the starvation of such scholars as 

 Danielevski and Smirnov, and the massa- 

 cre of Botkin. To have intelligent freemen 



College, in which he suggested the St. Andrew's Cross as the sign 

 of mulri plication, and uses symbols -{-, , =. 



4. The earliest known slide-rule in a circular form, recently dis- 

 covered in St. John's College. 



5. The early vellum and wooden telescopes of the Orrery Col- 

 lection. 



6. An original Marshall microscope. 



7. Early surveying instruments, including the great quadrate of 

 Schissler. 



