Even in the practical part of a science, painful to the operator himself, Mr.Abernethy has declared, and eloquently declared, that this enthusiasm is absolutely requisite.

"We have need of enthusiasm, or some strong incentive, to induce us to spend our nights in study, and our days in the disgusting and health-destroying observation of human diseases, which alone can enable us to understand, alleviate, or remove them.

On no other terms can we be considered as real students of our profession--to confer that which sick kings would fondly purchase with their diadem--that which wealth cannot purchase, nor state nor rank bestow--to alleviate the most insupportable of human afflictions." Such is the enthusiasm of the physiologist of genius, who elevates the demonstrations of anatomical inquiries by the cultivation of the intellectual faculties, connecting "man with the common Master of the universe." This enthusiasm inconceivably fills the mind of genius in all great and solemn operations.

It is an agitation amidst calmness, and is required hot only in the fine arts, but wherever a great and continued exertion of the soul must be employed.

The great ancients, who, if they were not always philosophers, were always men of genius, saw, or imagined they saw, a divinity within the man.