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parts of the History in the attempt–perhaps
a hopeless one–to lay before the reader in a
limited space enough about each age to il-
lustrate its tone and spirit, the ideals of the
workers, the gradual addition of new points
of view and of new means of investigation.
It would, indeed, be a pleasure to en-
tertain the hope that these pages might,
among new recruits, arouse an interest in
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