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is after all the only knowledge of which we can predicate 

 any positive certainty ; for knowledge of all objects is only 

 of objects as they seem to us, and how can we know our- 

 selves without a broad and comprehensive knowledge of 

 our, fellow-men as well as of our own origin and develop- 

 ment ? Whence can we forecast the future but by discern- 

 ing the impetus and direction given by past momentum ? 

 Whereby can we read the future destiny of our race un- 

 less in the light of past history ? 



