boundary line is there drawn, over which she will never venture to pass. "Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung."
Not improbably, when that stately Levite of old was pacing with dainty step the road that led from Jerusalem to Jericho, "bemused with thinking of tithe-concerns," and doing his best to look unconscious of the prostrate form on the other side of the way, if it could have whispered in his ear, "Your turn comes next to fall among the thieves!" some sudden thrill of pity might have been aroused in him: he might even, at the risk of soiling those rich robes, have joined the Samaritan in his humane task of tending the wounded man. And surely the easy-going Levites of our own time would take an altogether new interest in this matter, could they only realise the possible advent of a day when anatomy shall claim as legitimate subjects for experiment, first, our condemned criminals—next, perhaps, the inmates of our refuges for incurables—then the hopeless lunatic, the pauper hospitalpatient, and generally "him that hath no helper,"—a day when successive generations of students, trained from their earliest years lo the repression of all human sympathies, shall have developed a new and more hideous Frankenstein—a soulless being to whom science shall be all in all.
Homo sum! Quidvis humanum non a me alienum puto.[1]
- ↑ Quotation from letter, dated July 18, 1924, from F. Madan, of Oxford to M. L. Parrish, of Pine Valley, New Jersey.
Dear Mr. Parrish,
I congratulate you on acquiring the "Popular Fallacies about Vivisection." Mr. Williams himself has the only other copy.
I suppose it has Mr. Dodgson's misquotation of Terence in it: "Homo sum! Quidvis humanum non a me alienum puto." That is bad all round. It doesn't even scan. Really mathematicians should let Latin alone. It should be of course:
"Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto."
