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In looking back on the existing opinions which at intervals have seemed to call for, or at least to excuse, the publication of these desultory papers, it is to be recollected that there have been times, even now not far remote, When the attributes of scholarship were accorded to those only who were proficients in the ancient languages, and when familiarity with profitable sciences and with modern literature was not held to constitute learning, When the great changes effected in European civilization about four centuries ago were ascribed to the revival of classical learning, and not to their true cause, the discoveries made in physical sciences and arts, When the removal of human physical maladies was believed to be mainly, if not solely, practicable through the application of drugs and medicines, and by a resort to perturbative, and often violent, measures, When the introduction of pure water into cities.
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