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But even the knowledge which you may be said to possess will be a different thing after long habit has made it a part of your existence. The tactus eruditus extends to the mind as well as to the finger-ends. Experience means the knowledge gained by habitual trial, and an expert is one who has been in the habit of trying. This is the kind of knowledge that made Ulysses wise in the ways of men.
The maladies of the larynx are very ticklish things to handle, and nobody should be trusted to go behind the epiglottis who has not the tactus eruditus. And so of certain other particular classes of complaints. A great city must have a limited number of experts, each a final authority, to be appealed to in cases where the family physician finds himself in doubt.
But the tactus eruditus of the young surgeon was continuing the search for some evidence that the savage stab was not fatal, and his mind was busy with means for preserving life, should there be a chance. I watched his motions, and assisted now and then when asked, and waited with strained patience for a word upon which to base a hope.
"What is this, fishing-line?" "That's it, sir," said Dumlow. "It's right enough, there arn't no knobs on it, and it stopped the bleeding fine." "Difficult work here, Dale," Mr Frewen whispered to me. "One need have well-educated fingers what surgeons call the tactus eruditus to work like this in the dark." "Terrible," I replied, and I noticed how his voice trembled.
Then throwing back the long white sleeves of his robe the Hakim bent down over the patient, and with rapid touches of his white hands as if he were performing some incantation so it struck the lookers-on, though it was only the tactus eruditus of the skilled surgeon he soon satisfied himself that his patient lived, and of the injury which had laid the strong man low.
We should still avail ourselves of every particle of information that can be gained by the trained eye, the educated ear, the expert touch, the tactus eruditus of the medical classics, and even the sense of smell.
Poenituit Deum quod hominem fecisset in terra, et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus, delebo, inquit, hominem. . . . If I demonstrate that the offences charged upon humanity are not the consequence of its economic embarrassments, although the latter result from the constitution of its ideas; that man does evil gratuitously and when not under compulsion, just as he honors himself by acts of heroism which justice does not exact, it will follow that man, at the tribunal of his conscience, may be allowed to plead certain extenuating circumstances, but can never be entirely discharged of his guilt; that the struggle is in his heart as well as in his mind; that he deserves now praise, now blame, which is a confession, in either case, of his inharmonious state; finally, that the essence of his soul is a perpetual compromise between opposing attractions, his morality a system of seesaw, in a word, and this word tells the whole story, eclecticism.
Cum suis vivat valeatque moechis Quos simul complexa tenet trecentos Nullum amans vere, sed identidem omnium Ilia rumpens so the hard clear verse flashes out, to melt away in the dying fall, the long-drawn sweetness of the last words of all Nec meum respectet ut ante amorem Qui illius culpa cecidit, velut prati Ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam Tactus aratro est.
"Perhaps I shall," said his elder; "but I should like to try. Sometimes, my boy, the tactus eruditus will succeed when main force fails." "I wish you wouldn't talk Latin," said the boy impatiently, and he snatched his hand from the sword-hilt, leaving it vibrating and swaying up and down where it stuck in the wood. "Worse and worse," said the doctor quickly, as he caught it by the guard.
But even the knowledge which you may be said to possess will be a different thing after long habit has made it a part of your existence. The tactus eruditus extends to the mind as well as to the finger-ends. Experience means the knowledge gained by habitual trial, and an expert is one who has been in the habit of trying. This is the kind of knowledge that made Ulysses wise in the ways of men.
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