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Here one comes upon their dreams Calm and contained as their words are, their hearts are aflame with passion for the undiscovered They are akin to those who seek the theoretic poles of the earth, undaunted by endless defeats With quickening breath they watch the electrons fla the ultirasp, and yet they do not permit their dreams to blind or weaken them in their wearisome, hopeless quest
They have their heroism for humanity, too They meet death face to face, as they pry close into the cause of decay, the secret of ereon a er to an Arctic explorer These students never knohat destroyer they ly unloose Cross-section of abnor than a rose-leaf, a cluster of bacilli one past all creeds, these cal men, but they bow before the unspeakable majesty of the unknown To them the Hebrew Scriptures are but the tales of minstrels in the childhood of the race, Mohammed a dreamer of baseless visions, and Christ but incarnate love in an age of war The Creator they conceive is too profound to admit of any attribute He neither thinks nor feels, and the life that pulses at the base of the first faint cell is a part of the sa suns
Notwithstanding their daily contact with the o briskly with jocular greetings on the stair-ways They return to their ho themselves like commonplace fathers and brothers and husbands They even make love like other men; but, nevertheless, they may be overtaken in muse like alchemists, subject to fear and hope like children To the business-man their ways are ways of silence and sorcery Their deep-hid convictions are at variance with all theories of Christian rede than any romance of war or peace To the forces which e heart of life, forever finding, yet forever failing
To this big, bare building, to one of these barren rooht weeks study of the sands and the stars and the cave-dwellings of vanished e and beautiful he cloistered himself to pore upon the habits of the infinitely s, diminished tumult of the protozoa He caer for work, confident of soht and standing aer uishable froood social position; in his laboratory he was a master, absorbed, reticent, and precise of plan