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Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Dental Society: At the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting, Held at Peoria, May 11 to 14, 1897 Members of the Illinois State Dental Society: With a growing desire for greater intellectual achievements and for higher attainments in our profession and believing that knowledge is the supreme test of desire, that reason is the power behind the throne of wisdom, that usefulness is the greatest and best aim of life, we have met to seek for knowledge and to reason together, with the hope of finding that wisdom which will lead us into the scientific nature of things so that, individually, we may be of the greatest helpfulness to suffering humanity in the daily application of our professional life. Self-preservation is said to be the first great law of nature, but a greater law stands forth and says, "No preservation without progress." So the greatest law of the universe is the law of progression. Unseen hands are constantly changing star dust into revolving planets; having within them the potentialities of all the myriad forms of life. The earth upon which we live has been evolved from the nebulous mass which contained within it all the possibilities of life which have since found expression on this globe. The first cell or cells of organized life had in them all the potentialities of life that lie between the monad and man. That divine influence which has wrought life from the lowest living matter up to man, is still working and whether in the future there is to be developed on this earth a superior order of life form than man, only the ages can tell. There is no question that humanity as a whole, the world over, is being moved to a higher intellectual and moral height than the history of man has ever shown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.