no longer blazes his path; a highway
has been built for him. He is spared
the immense toil of formulating the
ideas by which he lives, and of pass-
ing through the searching experience
which is often the only approach to
the greatest truths. If he has origi-
native power, he forms ideas of his
own, but they are based on a massive
foundation of ideas which others have
worked out for him; he passes
through his own individual experi-
ence, but he inherits the results of a
multitude of experiences of which
nothing remains save certain final
generalisations. Every intelligent man
is born into possession of a world of
knowledge and truth which has been
explored, settled, and organised for
him. To the discovery and regula-
tion of this world every race has
worked with more or less definiteness

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