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with far severer penalties in the scientific than 

 in the business world. Scientific results are 

 used as foundations for further investigations, 

 and for this reason they are tested again and 

 again; and if any man's work is unreliable 

 it is done over by some one else, who reaps 

 the permanent credit. But the temptations to 

 make statements too broad, to neglect objec- 

 tions, to smooth over difficulties superficially, 

 are almost infinite. There is apparent through- 

 out all of Darwin's work much more than the 

 intellectual uprightness that is due to a belief 

 in " reward and punishment. " The very grain of 

 his scientific character was conscientiousness. 



His educational history, his thoroughness, his 

 scientific honesty, his logical power, his power 

 of minute observation and broad generaliza- 

 tion, the greatness of the problems with which 

 he dealt, and the profound influence of his 

 views upon the thought of the world, all con- 

 spire to make him a model in the study of 

 scientific method. Some of his views have 

 been rejected, and many may be profoundly 

 modified by more accurate knowledge, but 

 these things will in no way affect the value 

 of Darwin as a type of what education should 

 accomplish, and how it must accomplish it. 



Darwin appreciated the humblest scientific 



