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It is a sorry story, not of persecution, not of torture, but 

 of that long agony of martyrdom that lies in utter neglect. 

 The times had strangely altered when the nations, through 

 their representatives, might gather to do homage to a Pasteur. 

 They had indeed changed greatly in the succeeding fifty years. 

 But meanwhile yet another brilliant investigator, leading a far 

 different life, had likewise to drink the cup of bitterness for his 

 services to the truth. The far north had produced Coppernicus. 

 Germany had added Kepler. Let us journey southward, and 

 along the quiet ways of sunny Tuscany, list to the story of 

 Galileo and his starry woes. 



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