Anatomical Observations

texture, and the Daedalean ingenious or labyrinthine joining of the parts, are involved in so many marvels and reveal such a rich harvest of things to be investigated that, although the labor of many may conspire into one, and although a long series of years may be added, one can scarcely hope for a certain knowledge of them. There are some, I admit, who persuade themselves that a more easy path lies open to them for perfecting the idea of which we speak, and that there is no need for all things to be subjected to the external senses, for reason alone can supply the rest. But I would judge with the same right that, for Apelles A famous ancient Greek painter. to have given the heroic gravity of Alexander the Great to a silent image, a casual inspection of the living face would have sufficed, and that he could have supplied from his own genius what he could not attain with the same speed. I fear, however, that I might deserve the censure of those who would say that heroic majesty is indeed expressed in that way, but not the majesty of Alexander. Thus also in the present matter, although there is great power in the genius to generate new figures from the combination and separation of those previously observed...