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In this installment of Revolutionary Minds, five people who use the new tools of science to educate, illuminate, and engage.— SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
It is these which Mr. Newman is likely to illuminate, and not the faded forms of an obsolete ceremonial that cannot now be restored effectually, were it even important that they should.— Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
It is such problems as these that we are to-day called upon to illuminate, as far as we may -- it may not yet be very far -- by the dry light of science.— The Task of Social Hygiene
Since, therefore, there came to him from every quarter books to illuminate -- a work in which he was most excellent -- he was known by no other surname than that of "Dai Libri"; and he executed great numbers of them, for the reason that whoever went to the expense of having them written, which was very great, wished also to have them adorned as much as was possible with illuminations.— Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
The more torch-light one flings into the immense cavern which we are now trying to illuminate, the more profound it appears.— The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3

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