On state medicine in Great Britain and Ireland / by Henry W. Rumsey.

Date:
1867
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Credit: On state medicine in Great Britain and Ireland / by Henry W. Rumsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    historical criticism of antiquity in the present day is not generally supposed to be towards credulity. Lastly, one must ask Mr. Lowe to submit again to ' the melancholy and cruel necessity of pointing the arrow aimed against liis own breast.' If one wished to illustrate by the aptest example the advantage which a man, who should raise himself by his intellectual power to eminence in the State, might derive, perhaps unconsciously to himself, from an early familiarity with the masterpieces of antiquity, one would point to the classic union of strength, ease, and urbanity with which Mr. Lowe assailed the studies of his youth. In the pleasure of following the clear, unimpeded, natural and spark- ling flow of his eloquence,—quite unlike though it was to the type of oratory to which we are more accustomed here, —one could almost, for the moment, forget some of one's strongest convictions, and imagine the feelings of the old Athenian audiences:- aTrXws a/co^js r^hov-Q i7o-o-(o/Aevo6 koX o-o- </,io-T(3v Wats lotK^res Kae-qfiivoiS l^aXXov ^ irepl TvSXei^s (SovXev- ofj^evocs—' simply fascinated by the charm of Hstening, and liker to an assemblage watching the intellectual feats of professors of wisdom, tlian men deliberating for the interests of the State.'^ 1 Thucyd. iii. 38.
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