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to make such investigations possible. The recent history 

 of science indicates that a larger amount of research is now 

 in progress, " where the strange roads go down/' than at 

 any time in the past, and that the more important part of 

 this work is being pursued without the incentive of financial 

 gain. In the face of the very general failure to appreciate 

 this situation, the scientist should consider the means to a 

 better understanding. The case should be presented in a 

 way to make men understand that pure science is not "just 

 a lot of this bug business/' as is sometimes said of zoology, 

 but a " man's job," which appeals to imagination and which 

 taxes to their limit the intellectual resources of mankind 

 a task we must take up where our forebears lay it down. 

 That to conclude our analogy: 



"Follow after we are waiting, 



by the trails that we lost 

 For the sound of many footsteps, 



for the tread of a host. 

 Follow after follow after 



for the harvest is sown : 

 By the bones about the wayside 



ye shall come to your own!" 



