Tapfer is der Weltbezwinger,
Tapferer, wer sich selbst bezwang!”
“Brave is the lion-victor,
Brave the conqueror of a world,
Braver he who controls himself!”
It is a noble sentiment, and very appropriate to the present discussion.
[25]. See “Historie de l’Académie des Sciences,” for the year 1679, page 279.
[26]. Hippocrates positively asserts this latter hypothesis, and is outrageous against all sceptics in his theory. In his work on diet, he tells us, “Si quis non credat animam animæ misceri, demens est.” Tertullian warmly supports the orthodoxy of this opinion.
[27]. Bonner, I believe.
[28]. Velpeau defines conception to be, that change which takes place between the instant of vivification, and the period at which the germ shows evidence of development.