ial" effect.

The problem of force meets us everywhere, and I prefer to encounter
it in the world of physical phenomena before reaching that of living
actions. It is only the name for the incomprehensible cause of certain
changes known to our consciousness, and assumed to be outside of it. For
me it is the Deity Himself in action.

I can therefore see a large significance in the somewhat bold language
of Burdach: "There is for me but one miracle, that of infinite
existence, and but one mystery, the manner in which the finite proceeds
from the infinite. So soon as we recognize this incomprehensible act as
the general and primordial miracle, of which our reason perceives the
necessity, but the manner of which our intelligence cannot grasp, so
soon as we contemplate the nature known to us by experience in this
light, there is for us no other impenetrable miracle or mystery."

Let us turn to a branch of knowledge which deals with certainties up to
the limit of the senses, and is involved in no speculations beyond them.
In certain points of view, HUMAN ANATOMY may be considered an almost
exhausted science. From time to time some small organ which had escaped
earlier observers has been pointed out,--such parts as the tensor
tarsi, the otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies; but some of our best
anatomical works are those which have been classic for many generations.
The plates of the bones in Vesalius, three centuries old, are still
masterpieces of accuracy, as of art. The magnificent work of Albinus on
the muscles, published in 1747, is still supreme in its department,
as the constant references of the most thorough recent treatise on
the subject, that of Theile, sufficiently show. More has been done in
unravelling the mysteries of the fasciae, but there has been a tendency
to overdo this kind of material analysis. Alexander Thomson split them
up into cobwebs, as you may see in the plates to Velpeau's Surgical
Anatomy. I well remember how he used to shake his head over the coarse
work of Scarpa and Astley Cooper,--as if Denner, who painted the
separate hairs of the beard and pores of the skin in his portraits, had
spoken lightly of the pictures of Rubens and Vandyk.

Not only has little been added to the catalogue of parts, but some
things long known had become half-forgotten. Louis and others confounded
the solitary glands of the lower part of the small intestine with those
which "the great Brunner," as Haller calls him,