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of subordinate interest. By a curious and some- 

 what unfortunate chance, the name of ' physi- 

 ologist,' originally applied to those primal philo- 

 sophers of ancient Greece who took all Nature for 

 their province, has been inherited by the investi- 

 gators of function, to whom it has no more special 

 application than to any other students of Nature. 

 Arrived at the parting of the ways, 1 the one 

 of which leads to the province of physiology, the 

 other to that of morphology, we must take the 

 latter. It is no disparagement to Owen to say 

 that he was not a physiologist in the modern 

 sense of the term. In fact, he had done a large 

 part of his work before modern physiology, in 

 which no progress can be made without clear 

 mechanical, physical, and chemical conceptions, 

 came into existence ; and I think it may be 

 doubted whether he ever became fully aware of 

 the vastness of the interval which separates the 

 physiology of John Hunter from the physiology 

 of Johannes Mliller and his successors. 



Morphology has grown out of anatomy ; and 

 anatomy, like most branches of science, if not 

 begotten and born amongst the ancient Greeks, 

 was nurtured and brought up in the way it should 



1 It will be understood that mena of form or to those of 



the separation between Morpho- function. Both are equally 



logy and Physiology can be important to the aetiologist, 



maintained only so long as the who seeks for the causes of 



view is confined to the pheno- biological phenomena. 



