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Show There Are People Who Ask What Is the Good of All This Exploration? By SIR ERNEST StrfACKLETON, Antarctic Explorer. The Antarctic iB only a part, though a very large part, of tho object of our voyage in the Quest. If tho vision widens boyond the distant horizon one can descry a goal those mountains not yet seen, those gulfa not yet entered, thoso icy barriers yet ttnmeasured. There "are people who say it is nothing but fun for the explorer tho people who ask what is the good of all this exploration? If theirs had been the view held GOO years ago and explorers had not gone forward, wo should havo had a cramped and sorry world to live in now. Life must bo lived not for tho moment alone ; we must live and order our lives for posterity as well as ourselves. Tho impossibility of today is the commonplaco of tomorrow, and it is surely the privilege of a century like our own to extend the bounds of human understanding farther than they have yet been placed, |