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Show "til IIOMM" On of the mott irtquent oommnnt upon lb mulllpllclly of eltempla lo reach tb North l'ol la lb query: "Well, If Ihey ahould reeob It, of what uaa will II be to them or to Ibe worh.7" Tiiequetilon It Ju.l now aakad wllb eapaolal unction and with muohebrug-glng muohebrug-glng of tbouldera booauee of lh report lhal Nanaeo has ollmbed lha pole pre-aumed pre-aumed to b lh northrn axtanaton of Ibe earth's axis, and bareus somebody some-body ale, with a severe sort of name, Is proposing a similar teal with reference refer-ence lo the Hsuth IMe. To anawer aucb a query, one needs but lo stale that, utilitarian utili-tarian a Iba world of today Is supposed to b, II atlll baa a large measure of aenllmeotallty, and II haa moreover an overweening deelra for knowledge. Tbla latter baa baao, In fact, a featur eharaourlailc of tb rac from lha vary beginning lh aerpenl lu tba (larden made no explicit ofer of utility, ha held out lha lemplalloo of "knowladgtl" From Ibal day I thlr, man have risked loll, meant, reputation, life, for knswledgr; aud whatbtr or not lha knowledge when onoa arqulred wer worth a tllha of Iba sacrifice aeneetary lo lla attainment attain-ment has never been a subject of calculation. cal-culation. It will ba ao to tbeead; for II I an attribute lhal canool and ought not lo be oradlrated. Under lie operation men bare learned aoma little aa to lh amend am-end the air and planets of the unlvere. I. lie haa been atudled In Its various eipecte under lha equator as well as In lb land of th aurora bin-alls. Tba r.tlaa svaroti fur now knowledge It perhapa more noticeable now than avr bfor; ortaluly It I a movement ao powerful that lu tbla age no ona aver Ihlnka of arguing agalnat II upon Ibe mere ground embodied In the query "Cut bouoT" |