Abstract
We are engaged in establishing an archive of autobiographical materials... because we believe that the details of an individual human life will serve to illuminate and help differentiate for the future historian those vast forces which in our own time, ironically enough, assault the identity of the individual.... Some years ago, the distinguished historian of science, George Sarton, advised: The history of science and in particular the history of medicine is not simply an account of discoveries. Its purpose is to explain the development of the scientific spirit, the history of man's reaction to truth, the history of the gradual revelation of truth, the history of the gradual liberation of our minds from darkness and prejudice.... It is the historian's main duty to revive the personalities, rather than to enumerate their scientific discoveries. Discoveries may be important but personalities are infinitely more so.... The disappearance of the personal document is
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