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His chief resuanisarded by the teachers of the future? Will they not read us and smile over us as curiousthe state of science in our day? Do you drea the chasm between the crystal and the non-nucleated cell? I do not As I sat alone last night unable to sleep, my eyes ran over the backs of the books on reat ones, Laplace, Spinoza, Descartes, Goethe, Spencer, Hegel, Kant, Darwin, all the wonder-workers How masterful each had been in his time How complacent of praise; how critical of the past! But here now they all stood gathering dust, and I thought: so will the unborn philosophers of the next century fold me up and put er useful My book will be but an empty shell on the reef of human history Of such cruelty are the makers of scientific advance"
Morton was profoundly moved by the note of pathos, of disillusionment in the old man's voice "Would you have me believe that these men we doubt to-day are forerunners of the future?"
"I feel so The materialists have had their day Soiven to the world, not as Kant gave it, but through experireat honor some day"
"You would not have us weaken in our ed He resumed his ilant scrutiny of fact one atoes--no matter how repulsive the source"
Morton sat for a moment in deep study, then said: "If I fail to stop the public announcee is issued in spite ofthe committee in order to be present and shield her If it comes to this, will you join me and support me?"
"With pleasure"
"But suppose the president and our board object?"
"What right have they to object? So long as I do not neglect my duties they will not dare to object"
"They will be scandalized Two of us going into an investigation of this sort will seem to involve the whole school, and theyas we are connected with the institution If they ask for our resignation, the public will side with us, but all other institutions, and probably the bulk of our colleagues, will go against us I hesitate, therefore, to ask you to take up this work It is not a n, and I a this is my best plan At the same time I hope, for Miss Lambert's sake, that the public test will not be made"