1J2 Correspondence. [March, 
Appendix, with regard to our duty of ignoring all things trans- 
cendental, are those of Dr. Lewins himself. 
I will not encroach much further upon your space, except to 
say that, granting our postulate that healthy sensation is the 
chief end of Life, my allusion to modern specialists stand in no 
need of palliation. I submit that there have been, and are, men 
“ who make discovery their ruling passion,” and that to this 
Moloch “ they sacrifice the harmony, equilibrium, and happiness 
of their lives.” (Vide “ Life and Mind,” App., 59). The allusion 
to Faraday seems perfectly justified, since it furnishes an apt 
illustration of the evils resulting from the unnatural and uncalled- 
for protraction into old age of intense contemplative pursuits and 
analysis. I do not deny the value of scientific education, but I 
maintain that such should be confined to the formative (W erdende) 
period of human life. The “complete man ” is he who preserves 
healthy sensation, whose cerebral functions have been duly 
trained, not over-trained, so as to become asymmetrical by ex- 
cessive scientific discipline. In such a man we see, as Dr. Lewins 
expresses it, all that poets have fabled of the golden age, or that 
religious founders have denominated the kingdom of heaven. 
On the other hand, we know that outside his own speciality of 
formal Physics even such a prodigy as Newton was below, rather 
than above, the standard of the Vir — the all-round man, “ totus 
teres atque rotundus .” Why, I would ask, does no very success- 
ful professional man desire for his son, or others dear to him, his 
own career?* If Science really were the supreme vocation its 
zealots represent it to be, how comes it we have not successive 
generations of scientists as we have of soldiers and sailors ? In 
thus writing I know I express the experience of the author of 
“ Life and Mind,” who holds that in particular medicine presents 
no future for men of idea-ed minds, and that its routine drudgery 
only suits those among its followers who spring from the less 
cultured classes of the community. Its high rate of mortality 
alone proves its incompatibility with the conditions of natural 
life. If such be the case in the science of human nature, which 
medicine truly is, we can readily understand why, in modern 
Europe, scientists (F ach-manner) do not follow, in such matters, 
the obligatory, hereditary caste, or family system, as it obtained 
among the ancient Egyptians. — I am, &c., 
The Editor of “ Life and Mind.” 
* For in much wisdom is much grief ; and he that increaseth knowledge 
increaseth sorrow . — Ecclesiastes i., 18. 
