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Excerpt from Philosophical Problems of Medicine: Presidential Address Before the American Medical Association, at the Thirtieth Annual Session, Atlanta, Ga., May 6, 1879
Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Theology are the great subjects of human study. Science is the knowledge of nature and of nature's laws. Literature, including history, is the representation of man's life; it tells his joys and sorrows, his aspirations and achievements, his victories and defeats, his glory and shame; it is man's autobiography. Philosophy studies man's psychical nature, both in its mental and moral mani foetations; it seeks to discover the relation he bears to the past and to the future, to nature and to the universe, and in its highest development brings the re?ecting mind to believe in an ultimate unity, a great first cause, the fountain of all other causes, a power originant of them if not immanent in them. Theology discusses the being, attributes, and providence of the Divine, the uncreated, the eternal, whose existence philosophy in its sublimest aspirations maintains, even if that existence he not one of the fundamental convictions of the human mind.
Nevertheless, these divisions are in some degree arbitrary. For example, if there be a Divine Being, all-wise and all powerful, and nature his creation, his name will be recorded on its pages; and to the study of such record, the title of natural theology has been given.
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