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(3) "Not at all especially innate. I could 

 have taken to any other subject quite as well, so 

 far as I know. I trace the origin of my interest 

 in science to the knowledge that I must do my 

 best in it to earn a livelihood and to please my 

 parents. I did not follow my own branch from 

 any special liking indeed, I disliked it ; but 

 it was necessary to follow some branch. The 

 connection with an hospital and medical school 

 in .... have been inducements to continue 

 work, and all my life I have worked pretty 

 steadily." (d) 



(4) "I cannot perceive that they were innate. 

 Possibly my tastes were due to retentiveness of 

 memory as to objects and facts, and a strong 

 impression that good surgery is a great fact. 

 Subsequently, by the approval of teachers, when 

 between set. 18 and 20, having been selected 

 chief assistant to the most popular teacher of 

 anatomy of his day, and also to a professor of 

 surgery/' (c, g) 



(5) " Had an interest excited in philosophical 



