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cal morula, from which in turn develop a 

 hundred or more larvae, which immediately 

 proceed to eat up everything in and of the 

 body of their host. Only in this way does 

 Nature preserve the Selenas, the Leas, and 

 the Crambes, so dear to Cato and so neces- 

 sary for the sustenance of our hard-work- 

 ing, brawny-armed Brasserii. 



From over-specialization scientific men 

 are in a more parlous state than are the 

 Humanists from neglect of classical tradi- 

 tion. The salvation of science lies in a rec- 

 ognition of a new philosophy — the scientia 

 scientiarum of which Plato speaks. "Now 

 when all these studies reach the point of in- 

 tercommunion and connection with one an- 

 other and come to be considered in their 

 mutual affinities, then, I think, and not till 

 then, will the pursuit of them have a value." 

 Upon this synthetic process I hesitate to 

 dwell; since, like Dr. Johnson's friend, 

 Oliver Edwards, I have never succeeded in 



