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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: progress; a man whose whole life was a long struggle of knowledge
against ignorance, of truth against lies."
Plaudite: Exeat: with Rondelet and Buchanan. And whensoever
this poor foolish world needs three such men, may God of His great
mercy send them.
PARACELSUS {13}
I told you of Vesalius and Rondelet as specimens of the men who
three hundred years ago were founding the physical science of the
present day, by patient investigation of facts. But such an age as
this would naturally produce men of a very different stamp, men who
could not imitate their patience and humility; who were trying for
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