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PART III. 



PERSONAL PREPARATION FOR RESEARCH, 

 CHAPTEK XXVII. 



PERSONAL CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS IN RESEARCH. 



Who are the great 1 



Those who have boldly ventured to explore 

 Unsounded seas, and lands unknown before 

 Soared on the wings of science, wide and far, 

 Measured the sun, and weighed each distant star 

 Pierced the dark depths of ocean and of earth, 

 And brought uncounted wonders into birth 

 Repelled the pestilence, restrained the storm, 

 And given new beauty to the human form 

 Wakened the voice of reason, and unfurled 

 The page of truthful knowledge to the world ; 

 They who have toiled and studied for mankind 

 Aroused the slumbering virtues of the mind 

 Taught us a thousand blessings to create 



These are the nobly great. PRINCE. 



THE discovery of important scientific truths is an act more 

 nearly allied than any other to that of creation ; even the 

 ancients recognised this, and classed great discoverers (and 

 even inventors) with the gods. It is not usually the most 



