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useless unless moral breeding is an accompani- 

 ment. How foolish have been our teachings of 

 the past; fables in place of facts will lead to 

 gradual but certain destruction, as they always 

 have and always will. 



It is not a simple task to put experience on 

 paper; to seek and find in a thousand experi- 

 ments, dismissed as failures, the three or the five 

 important truths they alone revealed; to glean 

 from the experiments which proved successful 

 the vital discoveries which they have yielded, and 

 to appraise them in order of their real impor- 

 tance; to arrange the facts in orderly sequence 

 and to distill from the mass of theory, which has 

 gone hand in hand with practice, those essentials 

 of probability necessary to cement together a 

 useful structure. 



If we are to benefit by the experience of any 

 man, we must have before us not only the things 

 which he knows, but the things which he believes, 

 arrayed with an eye to relative importance, with 

 facts, figures, formulae, beliefs, theories, pur- 

 poses and hopes brought together into a state 

 of unified reconciliation. 



