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adequate perspective for their lives. It is to ennoble our existence by 

 showing how it rests upon the order of the ages. In the economic field 

 it is to show the resources which these ages have accumulated in the 

 earth for tlie service of the enlarged man, who is to attain his possibili- 

 ties by a full understanding of his place in nature. To do the fit work 

 we need to combine the functions of explorers and guides zealous to 

 open the way to the unknoAvn, and those of teachers w^ho take care that 

 the 3^outh of our time are led into the land which we know to have so 

 much promise for man. 



