Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler.

  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forth to his work and to his labour until the evening, and returning, sweats in oblivion without a thought of whence or whither. At one end of the scale the gay and giddy Cyrenaic rout—the society set of the modern world, which repeats with wearisome monotony the same old vices and the same old follies— cares not a fig for the life to come. Let us eat and drink ; let us enjoy every hour saved from that eternal silence. “ There be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes Milton, that will fetch the day about Areopagit- ica from sun to sun, and rock the