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There are people who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free government, as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty and necessity; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling.
Who but a genius of this order, sitting in his orchard, and observing the descent of an apple, could have discovered a new quality in matter, and have ascertained the laws of attraction, by perceiving that the same causes might perpetuate the regular motions of the planetary system; who but a genius of this order, while viewing boys blowing soap-bladders, could have discovered the properties of light and colours, and then anatomised a ray?
"From the top of the head to the heel of the foot, in a strait line, it measured twenty-six inches." But the opportunity of examining the skeleton of the very animal Tyson anatomised having most unexpectedly presented itself to me, I am able to bear independent testimony to its being a veritable 'Troglodytes niger',* though still very young.
Could Saxham, sitting motionless and vigilant on the folding-chair, his keen eyes quick to note each change, his deft hand prompt to do all that can be done could Saxham hear, he would behold, anatomised before his mental vision, the soul of this his fellow-man. "Coming straight for me five round black spots punched in the grey. If they go by, luck's on my side, and I marry her.
'Then let Regan be anatomised, and see what it is that breeds about her heart. He has asked already, 'What is the cause of thunder? But 'his philosopher' must not stop there. 'Is there any cause is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? It is the stars! The stars above us govern our conditions, Else one self mate and mate could not beget Such different issues.
'Then let Regan be anatomised. For in the Play, in the poetic impersonation, which has a scientific purpose for its object, the historical extremes of these natural differences are touched, and brought into the most vivid dramatic oppositions; so as to force from the lips of the by-standers the very inquiries and suggestions which are put down here; so as to wring from the broken hearts of men tortured and broken on the wheel, which 'blind men' call fortune, tortured and broken on the rack of an unlearned and barbaric human society, or, from hearts that do not break with anything that such a world can do, the imperious direction of the new science.
He laughed at himself as he lay on his pillow, thinking of this second cure which had been effected upon him. He did not care the least about Fanny now: he wondered how he ever should have cared: and according to his custom made an autopsy of that dead passion, and anatomised his own defunct sensation for his poor little nurse.
Goodchild having wiped the perspiration from his brow, or tried to do it, the Two old men proceeded in one voice, and in the singular number: 'I had been anatomised, but had not yet had my skeleton put together and re-hung on an iron hook, when it began to be whispered that the Bride's Chamber was haunted. It WAS haunted, and I was there. 'WE were there. She and I were there.
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