GREEK BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 



and indeed the highest life which is of the 

 mind? This is the AristoteHan view, and one 

 properly belonging to a man who saw life 

 whole and realized the splendor of its mani- 

 festations, beyond the fields of science, in art 

 and literature, in tragedy and epic poetry. 

 The " end " of the body is the human person- 

 ality made up not only of its intellectual 

 strainings, but of its nobler impulses and more 

 sublime emotions, the sense of holiness and 

 beauty and other unanalyzable things of 

 human experience. 



And as for the example of Aristotle, though 

 he be prone to leap to principles from insuffi- 

 cient grounds, and though his methods were not 

 those of modern scientific verification, still 

 the largeness and penetration of his views, his 

 constant envisaging of each detail as part of a 

 greater living whole, his insistence upon the 

 ultimate bearings of each fact, all this still 

 has at least some echo of inspiration even for 

 a time when the vast complexity of research 

 forces most scholars, as well as scientists, into 

 a sort of rodent specialism. Before him no 

 one had so grandly and so profoundly seen the 

 organism as a whole and as a coordination of 

 parts, and few men since his time. 



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