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... whole these occasions are rare and if he be a good man as well as a good scientist he will not wish to multiply them . They are still rare to - day , they were consider- ably more so in the past . When scientists are pub- licly praised ...
... whole these occasions are rare and if he be a good man as well as a good scientist he will not wish to multiply them . They are still rare to - day , they were consider- ably more so in the past . When scientists are pub- licly praised ...
Page 57
... whole of eternity before him . Is he a hu- manist , or not ? It all depends on his own education , on the quality of his own soul . The chances are how- ever that all is not well with him . His aloofness is too great ; he is too proud ...
... whole of eternity before him . Is he a hu- manist , or not ? It all depends on his own education , on the quality of his own soul . The chances are how- ever that all is not well with him . His aloofness is too great ; he is too proud ...
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... whole , it is the first who has won . When one reads such a book as Gibbon's Decline and Fall , one cannot help shuddering half of the time , and wondering how on earth did the " good people , ” the forward - looking ones , the ...
... whole , it is the first who has won . When one reads such a book as Gibbon's Decline and Fall , one cannot help shuddering half of the time , and wondering how on earth did the " good people , ” the forward - looking ones , the ...
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