 | 1848 - 494 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems "of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each hack to the " vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for " verities. In the past, there is scarcly a conceivable absurdity that men " have not tested by experience, and... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems " of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each hack to the " vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for '' verities. In the past, there is scarcly a conceivable absurdity that men " have not tested by experience, and... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1877 - 704 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In the past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that men have not tested by experience and for... | |
 | Samuel A. Jones - 1880 - 104 pages
...Homoeopathy does not " find seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities." Gentlemen, this is science. Science is truth ; truth is God's, and He gives His truths to all. If,... | |
 | Frederick F. Moore - 1880 - 64 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. . . . Narrowing our gaze to the regular profession, and to a few decades, what do we see? Experience... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - 1881 - 1018 pages
...groping in the darkness, finding seeming germs of truth, one after another, only to be cast back into the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for something fixed." As a traveler without a compass in a fog may wander long imagining he is making way,... | |
 | John William Dowling - 1882 - 30 pages
...darkness, finding seeming germs of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In the past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that men have not tested by experience, and... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Association - 1883 - 344 pages
...groping in the darkness, finding seeming germs of truth, one after another, only to -be east back into the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for something fixed." As a traveler without a compass in a fog may wander long imagining he is making way,... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1888 - 922 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In the past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that men have not tested by experience and for... | |
 | 1889 - 646 pages
...darkness, finding seeming gems of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had been mistaken for verities." Evidently, there is experience and experience, and such a choice as there... | |
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Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in... 
