"It is impressive to think how few men we should have to remove

from the earth during the past three centuries to have stopped
the advance of our civilization
"It is impressive to think how few men we should have to remove
from the earth during the past three centuries to have stopped
the advance of our civilization. In the seventeenth century
there would only have been Galileo, Newton and a few other
contemporaries, in the eighteenth they could almost have been
counted on the fingers, and they have not crowded the
nineteenth."[7]


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