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Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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beingone of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the uni-verse, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know thathis play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know,to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake or makes thesmallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays wellthe highest stakes are paid, with the sort of overflowing gener-osity which with the strong shows delight in strength. Andone who plays ill is checkmated—without haste, but withoutremorse. Science is of the highest value in overcoming false theoriesas to health and sanitation, the treatment of disease and epi-demics, the driving away of superstitions and degrading beliefs,and the uplifting of mankind in general intelligence and progress.There can be no question that men of science, like the ministersof religion, have helped greatly in reforming the world. 140
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THE LOVE OF PROGRESS Happy Inspirations Men are too apt to forget how much society is indebted toscience foi the innumerable benefits it has contributed fromtime immemorial to the little affairs of everyday life. Hap-penings which were once considered ominous are now acceptedas natural. Developments once attributed to witches and re-sented to the point of death now awaken no concern or evenwonder. Things once deemed hurtful as foods are now usedwith impunity and gladness, while other things once esteemedare now discarded. Medicine is not the uncertain science it once was. Experi-mentation upon human beings was once as common as bio-logical speculation, but more scientific methods now bring moresatisfactory results. It is true that medical theories diametrically opposed to eachother are still in vogue, but it is also true that many which wereonce doubtful have now come to be established in popularfavor, while some practices, like that of bleeding, have beenalmost wholly discarded and d

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