The Value of a Great Medical Reputation, With Suggestions for Its Attainment: A Lecture, Introductory to the Summer Course of the Medical Institute (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Value of a Great Medical Reputation, Wit...)
Excerpt from The Value of a Great Medical Reputation, With Suggestions for Its Attainment: A Lecture, Introductory to the Summer Course of the Medical Institute
Laborious as must be the toil of him who struggles up the steep ascent of fame, it is but a small price paid for an inestimable good. But with all its apparent hardship, the indefatigable pursuit of know ledge is attended with many enjoyments. Perhaps we can form no idea of happiness superior to that of progression in knowledge. After satisfying animal wants, a task which employs but a small part of our time, we are by our own instinctive impulse, urged on in the pursuit of knowledge, and by different paths, and for various ends, men are actively engaged in the acquisition of new ideas. The gossip labours as hard in,the busy haunts of men in seizing and re tailing the idle news of the hour, as does the botanist in his flower garden, the mineralogist on the mountain, or the conchologist on the margin of the sea. The politician, the banker, the ship owner, the mere lounger, are occupied almost unceasingly in acquiring new ideas, and often with considerable, but pleasurable effort. It is one of the fundamental laws ofhuman nature, illustrated in every child, and therefore to be obeyed, but obeyed with reference to the pro duction of elevated enjoyment in ourselves and others. In the pur suit of professional learning, the physician unquestionably rightly consults those desirable ends.
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