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"The little spare wizened-up grey man who stood in the middle of the hall, caught Ernest's hand warmly, and held it fettered in his iron grip. 'Biologists and physicists and mathematicians, those are our best recruits, ' he said. 'The social revolution is not to be accomplished by violence, the victory will be in the end to the clearest brain and the subtlest intellect.' "--from "Philistia."
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