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52 The Harveian Oration. possibly be interpreted in terms of Matter, whereas there is not the remotest possibility of so interpreting them."

What the student of nature's mysteries always needs to remember is his position. as viewing things from his own centre, rather than from the centre. What he has chiefly to avoid is that discouragement should not pass into denial. If our difficulties are great, our hope is assured that the organic laws, in their highest conception, correlate with laws of truth, and culminate in that moral nature expressed by the term holiness. Thus, only to those unconversant with the practice of medicine can it seem strange that, ever occupied as we are with the fai- lures of humanity, the mists of physical and moral disease cannot obscure the brightness of that ideal perfection which the law of life" casts upon our path.


 * "Principles of Psychology," p. 158.

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