...f fairly systematic inquiry knows remarkably little. Save for some general anatomy, it is impossible to teach school-children anything true about the ... ...igue, folly—you have as much of it as one pen may condense in old Burton’s Anatomy—and through it all a vast multitude of decent, respectable bodies p... ...scent students in any subject, in philology just as much as in comparative anatomy, and in history just as much as in economics. The cheapening of pri... ...ject for “Huxley”—”Huxley” they will call the subject, and not Comparative Anatomy, on the model of “Euclid”—or for the retention of compulsory 196 M... ...e taken, and in addition some special department, ei- ther the Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrata chiefly, or of the plants chiefly , or of several... ...he general sea of thought and action. Thought is the life, the spontaneous flexibility of a com- munity. A community that thinks freely and fully thro...

...homas Aquainas’ works; and tell me whether those men took pains.”—Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, P . I, s. 2. THIS WA S MR. CASAUBON’S LETTER. My Dea... ...ht seem inconvenient to do so. The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the ... ...ee hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era 415 George Eliot in anatomy.” “I can’t guess,” said Rosamond, shaking her head. “W e used to pl... ...ll tell you. His name was V esalius. And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards ... ... a pure voice, just trembling in the last words as if only from its liquid flexibility— “Y es, it must be right for you to do as you say. I shall be v...