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Mm when the lines of history draw in, and the 

 critic will have the proper perspective ? I believe 

 no great worker ever thought less about it. 

 Through inexorable labour, through constant sacri- 

 fice, through storms of painful obloquy, he has lived 

 his ideals, if he has made mistakes — been mortal. 

 Those ideals are an enduring contribution to the 

 good. The first, the motto of his young days, 

 was Impavidi progrediamur — *'Let us march on 

 fearlessly." The second, the motto of his later 

 years, was: ''The good, the true, and the beautiful, 

 are the ideals, yea the gods, of our Monistic 

 philosophy." 



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