She ignores nationality, creed, politics, and social position. She plucks her golden treasures from all available sources. She demands from her devotees earnestness, honesty, perseverance, unselfishness. She is exacting, always ready to criticize, but just in her final decision. She is reserved in the distribution of honors, and when honors are received at her shrine, it always means that they have been dearly bought, not with gold or through outside influence, but by hard and unselfish work.
Science has little sympathy with what is regarded by the world as amusement.
The span of human life is so short and the field of science so vast and rich, that those who explore and cultivate it have but little time to spare for their own recreation and amusement. From morning until night, and from night until morning, he must spend most of his time in the care of his suffering patrons, and there is not an hour he can call his own. The healing art rests on science, and the physician is the one who built the foundation. Without science the practice of medicine and surgery of to-day would be what it was four hundred and fifty years before the birth of Christ, crude and empirical. The light of science began to illuminate the temple of medicine with the classical writings of Hippocrates, and it has shone brighter and brighter until at the present time its effulgent rays are penetrating its remotest nooks and corners.