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effect a tolerable compromise between the imperfect conditions 

 that we have inherited and the ideal conditions that we should 

 like to transmit to our successors. 



The anatomists of to-day have an opportunity of providing 

 for the future while cherishing the past; of benefiting poster- 

 ity without neglecting ancestors; of lightening the burdens of 

 generations to come, while recognizing the value of what was 

 done by the anatomical fathers; of erecting a terminologic 

 monument in which the best of what has been is cemented by 

 their own labors. 



