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In a short time the daily routine wore the novelty
off my experience and I then settled down to calm analysis and
dispassionate appraisal of my surroundings and to compare what
was actually before and around me with my expectations. I
found that the general laboratory equipment was no better than
what I had been accustomed to; that my colleagues had no better
fundamental training than I had enjoyed nor any better fact--or
manipulative--equipment than I; that those in charge of the
work had no better general intellectual equipment nor any more
native ability than had my instructors; in short, there was
nothing new about it all, nothing that we did not have back
home, nothing--except the specific problems that were engaging
their attention, and the special opportunities of attacking
them. Those problems were of no higher order of complexity than
those I had been accustomed to for years, in fact, most of them
were not very complex from a purely intellectual viewpoint.


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