The human body and its connexion with man : illustrated by the principal organs / by James John Garth Wilkinson.

  • James John Garth Wilkinson
Date:
1860
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Credit: The human body and its connexion with man : illustrated by the principal organs / by James John Garth Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    the learner a constant sensation that he is developing it for himself, which lets him into the legitimate delight of mental power. But only that is attractive which is allied to our business and bosoms, and seems to have a life that understands our life, and vice versa. On the other hand, repulsion is the effect of <ieath and unkindness. Hence, to limit ourselves now to the human body, no popular science of it can exist, but one that :fills it with at least as much life as its pupils feel throbbing in their bodies. Knowledge draws them never until they are forced to cry out: Ah ! I see myself more than myself in that wonderful glass! If to their curiosity about themselves any dead body near them mutters germ-cells,* they feel dusty, degraded, and abhorrent. They must be rendered better, bigger, and worthier for every look they give, or their eyes will be averted from their books. Knowledge, however, is progressive, or its cars are of dif- ferent sizes. It will only be by slow degrees that we can iiccommodate the world with seats in the trains of science. New inventions will be requisite for each new population that is to be drawn. In the meantime it is good to see this, and to place as au end the education of the universal people, because that education will require the largest and noblest principles of common sense. To educate a Mechanics' Insti- tute demands far greater principles and more prolific love than to do the like for a Iloyal Society: you have to bring things down and to incarnate them, to connect them with material and substantial uses, and to give them both souls and bodies, * The intellectual correspondence of the doctrine of cell-germs and con- vertibility of forces, is found jn the doctrine of subjectivity, which implies in tlie first place that you are shut into yourself; and iu the second, that whatever comes to you puts on your state, and is nothing but your own walls vibrating. This is the philosophical, as the other view is the phy- sical, jail. The way out of it is by walking through the walls, which look granite, but are irapudeut mist.
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