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his huge and serious head, flat- 

 nosed and, as it were, rendered 

 heavy with thought. 



For this thankless and rather 

 sad head, like that of an over- 

 worked child, was beginning 

 the overwhelming work that op- 

 presses every brain at the start 

 of life. He had, in less than five 

 or six weeks, to get into his 

 mind, taking shape within it, an 

 image and a satisfactory concep- 



tion of the universe. Man, aided 

 by all the knowledge of his own 

 elders and his brothers, takes 



