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intensity, short of a limit defined by the very nature of things. But the 

 success in working what appears, at first sight, to be a quarry of research 

 that would soon suffer exhaustion, has only brought him to the threshold 

 of new labyrinths, the entanglements of which frustrate, with a seemingly 

 invulnerable complexity, the hopes of further progress. In a legitimate 

 sense all genuine scientific workers feel that they are ' the inheritors of 

 unfulfilled renown.' The battlefields of science are the centres of a per- 

 petual warfare, in which there is no hope of final victory, although 

 partial conquest is ever triumphantly encouraging the continuance of the 

 disciplined and strenuous attack on the seemingly impregnable fortress of 

 Nature. To serve in the scientific army, to have shown some initiative, 

 and to be rewarded by the consciousness that in the eyes of his comrades 

 he bears the accredited accolade of successful endeavour, is enough to 

 satisfy the legitimate ambition of every earnest student of Nature. The 

 real Avarranty that the march of progress in the future will be as glorious 

 as in the past lies in the perpetual reinforcement of the scientific ranks by 

 recruits animated by such a spirit, and proud to obtain such a reward. 



