"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."

Man, Men, Science, Genius, Civilization

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"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."

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