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He must understand the science of physiology, which 

 embraces that most important knowledge of the functions 

 of digestion and assimilation of the food, by which all ani- 

 mal bodies are built up and supported, with the nature of 

 their derangements, as well as the remedies therefor. In 

 short, the education of the physician is I'ust that combination 

 of the scientific with the practical which is given to no other 

 profession, much less to the mere classical students of our 

 colleges. 



The same is true to a less extent of the special education 

 of our civil engineer. It is from beginning to end the appli- 

 cation of science to practice, to actual work in the world. 



But it is vastly different in the three other great profes- 

 sions, divinity, law and teaching. What does the divinity 

 student ever learn to do with his hands except gesticulating 

 and baptizing '^ His culture is entirely of the mind and 

 heart, and is thus a Hmited culture, that always makes him 

 a one-sided and, usually, an unpractical, though often a mor- 

 ally exemplary man. I do not believe that this is the best 

 training even for a minister, but it is all he ever gets, either 

 in college or the divinity school. 



The lawyer in the law school is taught nothing that dis- 

 ciplines any of his bodily powers. Taken as a class, the 

 lawyers are physically the most untrained and helpless peo- 

 ple in the world. They do not often have the manual dex- 

 terity which w^ould enable them to sign their names in a 

 legible manner. Their whole training is scientific in the 

 highest degree, and in that science, logic, the art of which, 

 argument, is also entirely intellectual. Consequently the 

 better the lawyer the poorer the farmer. 



