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Conrad is something of an amateur of genius, while Henry James is a professor. Mr. Conrad never gives the impression of having used the dissecting-knife and the microscope and the test-tubes as Henry James does. He seems rather to be one of the splendid guessers. Not that Henry James is timid in speculations.
The doctor rose, laid aside his moral dissecting-knife, considered for a moment, and took it up again. "One last question," he said. "Have you any reason to give for going out of your way to adopt such a mystical view as this, when an unanswerably rational explanation of the dream lies straight before you?" "No reason," replied Midwinter, "that I can give, either to you or to my friend."
Herophilus lived about the same time with Erasistratus, and was, like him, famous for his knowledge of the anatomy of man. But so hateful was this study in the eyes of many, that these anatomists were charged by writers who ought to have known better, with the cruelty of cutting men open when alive. They had few followers in the hated use of the dissecting-knife.
John liked her poem, and that was more to her than the most flattering praise from the public. For Elizabeth was much more a woman than a poet. "You're a barbarian, John Gordon," she cried. "He doesn't know a finely turned phrase from a dissecting-knife; does he, Stuart? But really, it sounds far better than I thought it could. You read so well."
Elkinson glanced at me with a look, sharp, cold and penetrating as a dissecting-knife. He thought he understood what it was that he had to deal with. "A system?" he asked gruffly. "On the contrary the release from a system. The shattering of inhuman, un-Christian morals. The breaking through a wall of horrible institutions." "Which?"
All conceivable suaviter in modo characterized his mocking countenance and tone, as he inclined his haughty head and asked: "Will you favor me by lifting on the point of your dissecting-knife this stinging sin of mine to which you refer? The noxious brood swarm so teasingly about my ears that they deprive me of your cool, clear, philosophic discrimination.
I do not know that a people has ever been found, even among barbarians, who did not honor the bodies of their dead. For the good of humanity, dead bodies may at times be subjected to the dissecting-knife, but never to wanton indignities.
Vidal marked the countenance of his master as he spoke, with the same keen observation which the chirurgeon gives to the progress of his dissecting-knife.
As he has been no more successful in finding God the Infinite source of all life at the point of his dissecting-knife, than has the speculative chemist at the bottom of his crucible, or Mr.
Both parties may, to a certain extent, be right; for the one, including chiefly the metaphysicians, can successfully exhibit a gradation in the scale of derangement: beginning at the slightest peculiarity; passing on to an eccentricity; from that to idiosyncrasy; from that to a decay or an extraordinary increase of strength in a particular faculty say memory; from that to a decay or an increase in the intensity of a feeling, an emotion, or a passion; from that to false perception such as monomania, progressing to derangement as to one point or subject, often called madness, quoad hoc; and so on, through many other changes, almost imperceptible in their differences, to perfect madness all without the slightest indication of a pathological nature being to be discovered or detected by the finest dissecting-knife.
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