‘“The evidence of the self-consciousness of genius upon its 
own destiny, cannot be valued too highly. This self-conscious¬ 
ness is a talisman, as it were , which by its mysterious operations 
enables genius not only to withstand successfully all the dangers 
of the combat with the hatred and envy of talent, but, under the 
most adverse exterior circumstances, never to doubt the ultimate 
victory of its ideas. In this self-consciousness nature has given 
genius an antitoxin (the only one I personally believe in) against 
every poisonous attack of its malicious enemies, so that it is made 
invulnerable, like Siegfried through the dragon's blood. Not 
only does genius acquire an unbounded confidence in the justice 
of the future, but also the fearlessness necessary to meet great 
dangers. Even in the face of death, as in the case of Giordano 
Bruno and many others , genius is enabled, in the true sense of 
the word, to remain victorious over the most adverse destiny.' 
" ‘Whosoe'er with truth is armed 
Ne'er through slander can be harmed.’ 
“In the last thirty years I have carried my proven intuitions 
into marvelous effect by advising the so-called hopeless cases of 
Tuberculosis, especially in predisposed children, Diabetes, 
Bright’s disease, Arteriosclerosis, Neurasthenia, and such kindred 
ills, the results of which proved uniformly favourable. 
“There is more in intuition than the wisest of us guess;— 
there is a sympathy, innate in some, which leads in nature’s ways. 
—From my youth up, I am accustomed to surround myself with 
many humble friends from nature’s great menagerie of beast and 
insect, bird and tree, studying their various proclivities and fos¬ 
tering in them what was best—but loving most the beautiful. 
ut Nature is loved by what is best in us.' 
“So eager was my thirst to learn the knowledge of great 
minds that nothing was beyond my reach—no works too costly, no 
experiment too abstruse to stay the effort that might secure one 
forward step upon this lofty plane; whilst as for wisdom to fo¬ 
cus and assimilate the same in due alignment and perspective,— 
32 
