“What comrades have you in your work?” he asks a friend. “As for me, I am in the completest solitude.” He dreams of scientists coördinated in specialization by constant communion and coöperation, and by some great organization holding them together to a goal. “Consider what may be expected from men abounding in leisure, and from association of labors, and from successions of ages; the rather because it is not a way over which only one man can pass at a time (as is the case with that of reasoning), but within which the labors and industries of men (especially as regards the collecting of
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