"Here we watch the race grappling with great intellectual diffi- 

 culties and we see the spectacle of her champions painfully but surely 

 overcoming countless obstacles. Each of their victories is a genuii 



victory of the spirit, each of their defeats a spiritual chastisement. 



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"It is not the mind but the method the race has advanced ; and 

 where we are superior to our forefathers is in the fact that we have 

 learned at any rate in science first to lay a solid foundation of 

 fact before we begin to theorize." R. C. Maclaurin. 



