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grotesque than a panache of obsolete wisdom. I remember, for example, the days when a pronouncement all the rage was that no science must borrow the methods of another: the geologist must not use a microscope, nor the astronomer a spectroscope. Optics must not meddle with electricity, nor logic with algebra. But twenty years later, if you wished to pass for a commanding intellect, you would have to pull a long face and declare that "It is not the business of Science to search for Origins." This maximum was quite a