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It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

James Smithson

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James Smithson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1765
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: June 27
Chemist
Mineralogist
Paris
France
Jacques-Louis Macie
James Louis Macie
Smithson J
James Lewis Smithson
James Lewis Smithson [formerly Macie]
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Greatness
Knowledge
Happiness
Found
Men

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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
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Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
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