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true Surgery and Medicine. If ever he was bitter in society, it was 

 when they were undervalued ; if ever sarcastic, it was when the igno- 

 rant dared assume to judge them. 



A light is thus thrown on his even career of uniform progress. 

 Training his powers from youth upwards, by linguistic and literary 

 studies, by scientific pursuits, by the diligent practice of his art, by 

 mixing with men, he brought to bear on the multifarious questions 

 which come before a great master of healing, a mind alike accus- 

 tomed to acquire and to communicate, a temper made gentle by 

 considerate kindness, a tact that became all but unerring from 

 his perfect integrity. He saw that every material science conduces 

 to the well-being of man ; he would countenance all, and yet be dis- 

 tracted by none. He knew the value of worldly influence, of rank, 

 of station when rightly used ; he sought none, deferred excessively 

 to none ; but he respected all who, having them, used them wisely, 

 and accepted what came to himself unasked, gave his own freely 

 to all who needed, and sought help from no one but for public ends. 



A few words only may be added on the inner life of his later days. 

 Those who knew him only as a man of business would little 

 suspect the playful humour which sparkled by his fireside the 

 fund of anecdote, the harmless wit the simple pleasures of his 

 country walk. Some, who knew these, might not have imagined 

 another and deeper current which flowed unheard when neither the 

 care of his patients nor his literary pursuits or memories engaged 

 his mind. He who from his early professional life sat down every 

 night, his work ended, his notes entered, his next day ordered, to 

 ask what could have been better done today and what case other- 

 wise managed, was not one to reach threescore years and ten with- 

 out a keen onward gaze on the entire destiny of man. Yet he who 

 realized in his profession the answer of Trophilus the Ephesian to the 

 question, Who is a perfect physician? "he who distinguishes between 

 what can and what cannot be done " such a man would not dog- 

 matize on what cannot be known, nor would he, so humble, attempt 

 to scan the Infinite. But his nature yearned for some better thing 

 to come ; and yearning, it became satisfied. He had for many years 

 thought and conversed among his friends on facts he had noted in 

 relation to our mental organization. In the year 1854-, he published 

 anonymously a volume on Psychological Inquiries. This was 



