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carded tin, with the object of keeping 

 off disease! What more absurd, again 

 in superficial appearance than the prac- 

 tice of burning or poisoning a soil to make 

 it extra fertile ! 



Biologists in their proper field are 

 splendid, and their work arouses keen 

 interest and enthusiasm in all whom they 

 guide into their domain. Some of them 

 do their work by intense concentration, 

 by narrowing down their scope, not by 

 taking a wide survey or a comprehensive 

 grasp. Suggestions of broader views and 

 outlying fields of knowledge seem foreign 

 to the intense worker, and he resents them^ 

 For his own purpose he wishes to ignore 

 them, and practically he may be quite 

 right. The folly of negation is not his, 

 but belongs to those who misinterpret or 

 misapply his utterances, and take him as 

 a guide in a region where, for the time at 

 least, he is a stranger. Not by such aid 

 is the universe in its broader aspects to be 

 apprehended. If people in general were 

 better acquainted with science they would 

 not make these mistakes. They would 



