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 race, stimulated by the nature of the discoveries with which it is surrounded, must revolt against the artificial barrier that holds back its energies. When that day comes the nature of the school doctor's task will reveal itself, and its real scope and meaning will become clear. He will no longer merely fight the battle with disease. He will safeguard nascent faculty, and declare the sacredness of growing human life, of becoming life, just as of old the religious teachers proclaimed the sacredness of mere human existence.