MEDICINE AND MORALS 



to be right as the skeptic. The quickening 

 spirit of the universe claims its own, but 

 leaves behind from its fullness these patterns 

 of clay for the student's study. If he ap- 

 proach "the discarded vesture" with 

 humility his search discloses even in the 

 dead tissue before him a wondrous system 

 of purposed arrangements, means cunningly 

 suited to ends, delicate adaptations of all 

 sorts, which must, we will not say change 

 him from a doctor of medicine to a doctor 

 of divinity, but certainly must set his unbe- 

 lief, if he has such, in very unstable equi- 

 librium. Studious anatomists easily enough 

 learn the hollowness of old-fashioned natu- 

 ral theology; but they also learn, or at least 

 learn to surmise, that the thing to do with 

 natural theology, as heretofore taught, is to 

 broaden, deepen and reform it, not to reject 

 it. That so few medical men profess this 

 healthy surmise of spiritual powers and a 

 spiritual world is no sign that they do not 

 possess it. Your speech smacks of your 

 daily work, but your strictly personal and 

 characteristic thoughts lie deeper. Out of 



