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...persons--"a very small minority"--continue to grow intellectually after reaching the age of 23 or 24, and that there are few whose intellectual and spiritual velocity still rises at 40, suggests the need of such a gospel, especially in this new era of increased leisure for all. Maeterlinek is quoted as saying that on the way in which these increased hours of freedom are spent may depend the whole destiny of man. And one may not, in the face of the results of Dr. Thorndike's researches into the adult's ability to go on learning, have an excuse...
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