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thought, and how many valuable lines of inquiry 

 their thoughts might still suggest. And not 

 famous men only whom we praise, but many 

 nameless toilers who, inglorious, are sunk in 

 oblivion. As the Church, besides its special 

 saints' days, has a festival of All Saints to com- 

 memorate its obscure worthies who have not 

 been canonized by name, so may science owe a 

 service of thanksgiving to its humble workers 

 who, having no memorial, are perished as though 

 they had never been born. Two truths we may, 

 perhaps, take for granted : first, that a great mind 

 cannot look at any subject within the reach and 

 means of its observation without profiting by its 

 superior insight to think truly about it, although 

 the language expressing it needs to be translated 

 into terms of modern thought ; secondly, that it 

 is a fond fallacy to believe that a truth once 

 thought is not lost, for many spoken truths born 

 out of season are completely forgotten, being 

 perhaps reconceived and apprehended long 

 afterwards when, the general thought having 

 risen gradually to their level, they fall on fit 

 mental soil to grow in. 



The present posture of medicine in relation to 

 tuberculosis shows a wise recognition of the 

 necessity of fortifying the body inwardly to re- 

 sist its outward enemies. The noxious bacillus 

 has been caught, it is true, but its capture has 

 not been followed by the discovery either of a 

 protective serum to immunize the body, or of an 



