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what bold language of Bui'dach : " There is for me 

 but one miracle, that of infinite existence, and but one 

 mystery, the manner in which the finite proceeds from 

 the infinite. So soon as we recognize this incompre- 

 hensible act as the general and primordial miracle, of 

 which our reason perceives the necessity, but the man- 

 ner of which our intelligence cannot grasp, so soon as 

 we contemplate the nature known to us by experience, 

 in this light, there is for us no other impenetrable mir- 

 acle or mystery." * 



Let us turn to a branch of knowledge which deals 

 with certainties up to the limit of the senses, and is 

 involved in no speculations beyond them. In certain 

 points of view, Human Anatomy may be considered 

 an almost exhausted science. From time to time some 

 small organ which had escaped earlier observers has 

 been pointed out, — such parts as the tensor tarsi, the 

 otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies ; but some of 

 our best anatomical works are those which have been 

 classic for many generations. The plates of the bones 

 in Vesalius, three centuries old, are still masterpieces 

 of accuracy, as of art. The magnificent work of Albi- 

 nus on the muscles, published in 1747, is still supreme 

 in its department, as the constant references of the 

 most thorough recent treatise on the subject, that of 

 Theile, sufficiently show. More has been done in 

 unravelling the mysteries of the fasciae, but there has 



* Physiologie, Trad, de Jourdan, H. 826. 



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