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Excerpt from The Book of the Opening of the Rice Institute, Vol. 2 of 3: Being an Account of an Academic Festival Held in Celebration of the Formal Opening of the Rice Institute, an University of Liberal and Technical Learning Founded in the City of Houston, Texas
In spite of such exclusion, the thinking classes of humanity (which are not limited to the professional scientists) persist in stating these problems and in asking questions relating to them or derived from them. These inquiries demonstrate that the problems themselves are a part of an inherent and natural curiosity within us, and are a necessity inseparable from the human spirit - at least as it has been constituted up to the present. We can say no more than this, for it should not be forgotten that all 'our observations regarding our own nature are based on what has emanated from a period of human life which may seem long, but which is short when considered in comparison with what that life may be pro longed to in the future. Our hypothesis, given the present nature Of our intelligence, can never, however fecund the imagination, exceed the finite number of occurrences which embraces the known reality. As this limitation to actual ex perience is common to all the orders of our reason, it is clear that we are obliged always to work upon the basis of our mind as it now is and has for some time presumably to con tinue.
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