Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Science and Success: A Valedictory Address Delivered to the Medical Graduates of Harvard University, at the Annual Commencement, Wednesday, March 9, 1859
Yet most of us must be content to accept one. Or the other of these alternatives. He who climbs the tree of knowledge either lingers among its larger and unproduc tive stems, or follows some inviting branch, in its divisions and subdivisions, till he finds himself far to one side of the main current of its life, perplexed in studying a hand ful of its ever sub-dividing fibres, and his sky darkened by the crowding foliage. It is reserved for the gigantic ca pacity of the few, to grasp, in one comprehensive glance, all its outspreading branches, from the single leaf to the massive trunk, in all the complexity of their relations; to discern the fruit and to garner the abundant harvest.
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