PART V 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 



How to make the most of one's education, how to achieve 

 the largest success, must ever be a matter of immediate concern 

 to the student who has to win his own way. With such persons 

 in view, and I am speaking to no others in these pages, I will 

 here set down some observations that have grown out of my 

 own experience. If occasionally they prove useful and help to 

 smooth ways which are often hard in the beginning, I shall 

 feel well repaid. I have expressed my individuality very de- 

 cidedly on a variety of subjects in the following pages but I 

 could not do otherwise. If anyone thinks these observations 

 smack too much of "Thus spake Zarathustra" he has the remedy 

 in his own hands. We are often compelled to listen to an in- 

 dividual when we are bored, but never to a book. "Si ce livre 

 me fasche, i'en prens mi aultre." 



ON SUBSIDIARY STUDIES 



I have spoken farther along about the need of modern lan- 

 guages and may say a word here about the despised Latin and 

 Greek. As cultural studies, there can be no doubt of their value. 

 The student of Latin and Greek is generally a more discrimi- 

 nating student and forceful writer of his own language than other 

 men and this is a sufficient reason for their study. In the case 

 of the naturalist there are other reasons: (1) the terminology 

 of science is derived from these languages, and (2) all the oldest 

 scientific writings and some of the modern ones are in Latin 

 and Greek, and these, in some instances at least, must be read. 

 Finally, Latin is the mother of all the great Romance languages, 

 whose literatures will be to you a source of profit and delight 

 for many other reasons than the purely pathological one. My 

 advice to the pathologist therefore would be: study both Latin 

 and Greek, or at least Latin, and get as much out of it as you can. 



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