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Show IIZ Prophets long have been known to re ceive honors save in their own laud. But ClCZit m" l'0R,'em Partl4 "mny f the greatest are relatively without recognition. Like JVIcil t'1P nn' s''u'r llim" precious stones that . are hidden in the earth, and like the impal JLvGlll-llH pubic air that sustains our life, and like the ' tfl"C(PiTipk invisible electricity that does our work . c so1)t, 0j. jR In0!i. forcofuj( vitalizing, useful of the world's citizens are those whose work f is unknown, whoso personalities are ob- l By ADA MAY KHECKER. whow vnhC .g mt nj. flU ovj(cut 1() the world whom they sustain and nourish with their teeming thought. This is one of the findings of Lester F. Ward, himself a luminous instance in-stance of the concealment of the great. Although tho sociologists of America pronounce him facile princeps among them, and althoug.'SV'iero have been appreciations from abroad, even the foreign scientific circles aro largely unacquainted with his momentous contributions to knowledge. And as for the world at large the author of "Dynamic Sociology," of "Pure and Applied Sociology," with their epoch making ideas, is a nonentity. The facts in turn which Dr. Ward has mustered in support of his magnificent magnifi-cent theories are themselves the unrenowned croppings of innumerable laboratories and almost unknown men, scientific investigators pursuing their toilsome researches with little fame ami less fortune, apostles, albeit, al-beit, of human gladness and comfort, priests in tho cult of truth and reason. It is they that discover the laws which lesser minds can apply, that give us our wireless telephones, our airships, our turbines, our serums. Bui the world knows less about the greatest among them than it tells of in every evening's entra'actes above tho averago chorus lady of tho average play, less than it chatters every morning about the averago fighter in tho average ring, less than it argues every afternoon about tho average i i politician of the averago plank and nat ty. |