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cheeks, it may seem a mockery to speak of 

 this as the saving asset in our future ; but 

 is it not the very marrow of the teaching in 

 which we have been brought up ? At last 

 the gospel of the right to live, and the right 

 to live healthy, happy lives, has sunk deep 

 into the hearts of the people ; and before 

 the war, so great was the work of science 

 in preventing untimely death that the day 

 of Isaiah seemed at hand, when a man's 

 life should be "more precious than fine 

 gold, even a man than the golden wedge of 

 Ophir." There is a sentence in the writ- 

 ings of the Father of Medicine upon which 

 all commentators have lingered, "?)*> yap 

 irapr} fyiKavOptoirlri, irdpeaTt ical </>£\ore%z>ty ' 

 — the love of humanity associated with 

 the love of his craft ! — philanthropia and 

 philotechnia — the joy of working joined 

 in each one to a true love of his brother. 

 Memorable sentence indeed ! in which for 



1 CEuvres completes d y Hippocrates. ParE. Littre, ix, 258. 



