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from ordinary affairs, and pursuing far-off truths of no 

 human interest. Our aims and our efforts are no less 

 human, no less practical, and no less worthy, if we 

 pursue them in the right spirit, than those of our sailor 

 and soldier sons, brothers, and countrymen, with whom 

 our hearts now are. We, too, can adopt that splendid 

 motto of the British Navy — " CARRY ON." 



