50 Teachings of Thomas Huxley 



But he speaks more particularly of medical 

 education as the basis of recent advances in 

 medicine and surgery. He believes in the 

 study of strictly medical subjects. Let the 

 druggist learn all the finer points in materia 

 medica and botany, the physician merely wants 

 to know when and how to use the essentials. 



"Anv man who has seriouslv studied all the 



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essential branches of medical knowledge ; who 

 has the needful acquaintance with the elements 

 of physical science; who has been brought by 

 medical jurisprudence into contact with law; 

 whose study of insanity has taken him into 

 the fields of psychology, has ipso facto received 

 a liberal education." 



The value of special education in its influ- 

 ence upon the well-being of the commonwealth 

 is no insignificant or inconsiderable affair. 

 There is always the danger, however, of re- 

 ducing the finer sense of things to nothingness 

 in favor of the practical and seemingly more 

 essential. This is not so of necessity, and the 

 technician who gives up everything for his 

 special work will soon find his life blighted 

 and out of harmony with the beauty that lies 

 averywhere about him in the wonderful com- 

 plexity of Nature. 





