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of human thought, the sources of the new 

 science that has made a new world are prac- 

 tically ignored. One gets even an impres- 

 sion of neglect in the schools, or at any rate 

 of scant treatment, of the Ionian philoso- 

 phers, the very fathers of your fathers. Few 

 " Greats' * men, I fear, could tell why Hip- 

 pocrates is a living force to-day, or why a 

 modern scientific physicianVould feel more 

 at home with Erasistratus and Herophilus 

 at Alexandria, or with Galen atPergamos, 

 than at any period in our story up to, say, 

 Harvey. Except as a delineator of charac- 

 ter, what does the Oxford scholar know of 

 Theophrastus, the founder of modern bot- 

 any, and a living force to-day in one of the 

 two departments of biology, and made ac- 

 cessible to English readers — perhaps in- 

 deed to Greek readers ! — by Sir Arthur 

 Hort ? ' Beggarly recognition or base indif- 

 ference is meted out to the men whose minds 



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