168.) THE true and lawful goal of the sciences is none other than this: that human life be endowed with new discoveries and powers.

(Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Aphorisms, LXXXI, Spedding's translation.) A GOLDEN thread has run throughout the history of the world, consecutive and continuous, the work of the best men in successive ages.

From point to point it still runs, and when near you feel it as the clear and bright and searchingly irresistible light which Truth throws forth when great minds conceive it.

(Walter Moxon, Pilocereus Senilis and Other Papers, 1887, p.

4.) FOR the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a means of rendering men wiser and cleverer than they have hitherto been, I believe that it is in medicine that it must be sought.