On professional education, with special reference to medicine : an address delivered at King's College, London on October 3, 1905 / by T. Clifford Allbutt.

  • Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford), 1836-1925.
Date:
1906
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Credit: On professional education, with special reference to medicine : an address delivered at King's College, London on October 3, 1905 / by T. Clifford Allbutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the condition is true of all natural growths. In the rough and tumble of all callings, however, the higher life gets obscured, and we have to seek quiet moments when we can enter into that inner chamber of the mind wherein dwells that self by which we differ from all other individuals, for which we are responsible, and yet wherein, by this differ¬ ence, even those of us whose hearts are warmest are alone. To this end, whether I could or would go to church or not, I have always “ differentiated ” my Sundays. If I stay away from a place of worship the greater my responsibility, the more my duty to the higher life. Whether your “ studie be then on the Bible/’ or on Shakespeare, is for each of you to choose—on both perhaps ; but for that one day of the week be thankful to eschew idle books and newspapers, petty cares and business, and even professional usages which can be postponed ; so that we may live one day at least in the presence of men greater and purer than ourselves. And what I say of one day in the week I say also of some minutes in every day ; in that inner chamber store for the day some sweet verse, some line of gentle wisdom or lofty thought which—to repeat a phrase with which I began—shall still make the habit of virtue and reason easy and pleasant to us. Then when the new song is sung we may find ourselves among those who could learn that song, for they were redeemed from the earth.