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first at Chesilstowe."
"Chesilstowe?"
"I went there after I left London. You know I dropped medicine and
took up physics? No; well, I did. Light fascinated me."
"Ah!"
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Optical density! The whole subject is a network of riddles--a
network with solutions glimmering elusively through. And being but
two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my
life to this. This is worth while.' You know what fools we are at
two-and-twenty?"
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Fools then or fools now," said Kemp.
As though knowing could be any satisfaction to a man!
But I went to work--like a slave. And I had hardly worked and
thought about the matter six months before light came through one
of the meshes suddenly--blindingly! I found a general principle
of pigments and refraction--a formula, a geometrical expression
involving four dimensions. Fools, common men, even common
mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression
may mean to the student of molecular physics. In the books--the
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