Page:The Harveian oration - delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 29th, 1867 (IA b22315263).pdf/34

32 Thus a series of thinkers and workers continually succeed one another, each in his turn throwing light on the mysteries of our living frame—

In this, however, they are happily so far unlike the runners in the ancient torch-race, that the light of science which they pass onward is no flickering blaze, threatening instant extinction, and at best soon to die in other hands, but a self-renewing flame, which finds its own fuel as it advances, and becomes more brilliant by transmission.