are open to their approach. It is true
that fresh ideas often gain acceptance
slowly and against great odds in the
way of organised error and of individ-
ual inertness and dulness; neverthe-
less, it is also true that certain great
ideas rapidly clarify themselves in the
thought of almost every century.
They are opposed and rejected by a
multitude, but they are in the air, as
we say; they seem to diffuse them-
selves through all fields of thought,
and they are often worked out har-
moniously in different departments
by men who have no concert of action,
but whose minds are open and sensi-
tive to these invisible currents of light
and power.

The first and the most enduring re-
sult of this movement of ideas is the
enlargement of the thoughts of men
about themselves and their world.

was> themselves throug all fields of thought,
now> themselves through all fields of thought,

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