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virtue, but increasingly being collectively organised for 'the
greatest good of the greatest number'—comprises mankind's
realisation of Goodness. This is the meaning of the entire
process of Human History in all its phases—intellectual,
social, moral, political, aesthetic and economical For this is
the Science of History regarded 'noble in its conception,
abounding in instruction, and exalted in its aim.'