Anatomy of the Brain

and in acknowledging benefits, no less troublesome than others are heard to be in demanding them: but such is the nature of gratitude, and such is your own character, that neither will allow itself to be confined, much less to fail and grow weary, or to be exhausted at the very first attempt.

But there is also another reason, which, if it does not command or order this undertaking of mine, at least aids and protects it with some excuse. For since I have resolved to dissect the inmost recesses of the human mind, and to look (as far as our insignificance allowed) into the living and breathing Sanctuary of the Best Deity, I could not have used lesser auspices, nor perhaps was it fitting to use others: For You are He who most happily presides over all our sacred rites and temples (supreme in merit as well as in authority). And so, after so many victims have been abundantly slaughtered and slain by me, not once, in the anatomical temple—