objects, but no brains to compare nnd connect them 

 like a reasoning- being 1 . 



Ruskin sa)'s, " Analysis and seeing- only dif- 

 "ferences, tends to vice and deformity, whereas 

 " synthesis and seeing- resemblances, tends to unity, 

 " virtue, and harmony." This may be true. Still 

 I should hesitate to say, that the man who can only 

 see that a cow and a camel have each four stomachs, 

 is necessarily a more virtuous character than the 

 man who can only see that one has a crooked back, 

 whilst the other has a straight one. 



I should rather say that each faculty is equally 

 valuable^ and that neither should preponderate. 



Mr. Gamg-ee and his class seem to be quite igno- 

 rant that f< disease" is only a word used for con- 

 venience, to represent concisely the different dis- 

 organizations of animal machinery. When the 

 boiler of a steam-engine is cracked, we do not say 

 it is afflicted with that terrible and malig-nant disease, 

 " enteritis," but we acknowledge we have manag-ed 

 it badly, we mend it up and take better care of it 

 for the future. But these people seem to think 

 diseases to be so many actual positive entities, g'oing- 

 about the world like so many ramping- and roaring- 

 lions, seeking- whom they may devour. Still the 

 word disease is of course handy to use, if only 

 people would remember that there is no such thing 1 . 



Mr. Gamg-ee seems to think that rinderpest is 

 perpetually bubbling- up out of the gTound in some 

 remote corner of the Russian Steppes. Dr. Unter- 



