[92] As examples of responses obtained by psychography, we may cite the following definitions given by Eugene Nus and his collaborateurs, artists, philosophers, and men of letters: _Physics._—Knowledge of material forces that produce life and the organism of worlds. _Chemistry._—Study of different properties of materials, either simple or composite. _Mathematics._—Properties of forces and numbers flowing from the universal laws of order. _Electricity._—Direct force from the earth, emanating from particular life to worlds. _Magnetism._—Animal force, holding persons together; bond of universal life. _Galvanism and Electro-Magnetism._—Combined forces of earthly and animal life. [93] “I am attacked by two classes of different persons,” says Galvani, “the _savants_ and the ignorant; all torment and ridicule me, calling me _the dancing master of frog legs_. Meantime, I believe I have discovered one of the great forces of Nature.” [94] Laplace; “Traite du calcul des probabilities.” [95] Olivier Basselin was the proprietor of a mill in the valley of Vire, where he composed his little poems; hence, he named his rhymes “Vaux de Vire.” [96] This is, to a certain extent, a dialect poem, and bears a close resemblance in more than one respect to Tennyson’s “Northern Farmers”. [97] “Et mon orine Vous dit elle que je meure?” [98] “On pense estre guari par l’obscure parole De quelque charlatan qui le pipe et le vole; Un autre plus niais me fait exorciser, Ou par un circoncis se fait cabaliser.” [99] In the old French text, “Condampnacion des bancquetz a la louenge de diepte et sobriete pour le prouffit du corps humain.” [100] Poetic license in such rhymes unlimited. [101] The group of poets of the same period was composed of Ronsard, Du Bellay, Jodelle, Dorat, Belleau, Bail, and last, but not least, Pontus de Thiard. [102] Eugene Noel, “Rabelais medecin, ecrivain et philosophe.” [103] In the happy Abbey of Theleme, that Gargantua builds, we see the inscription of Fourier’s phalanctory destined for the elect, with the inscription over the great door: “Ci n’ entrez pas hypocrites, bigots, Vieulx matagots, mariteux, boursofles. “Haires, cagots, caphards, empantouples, Gueux mitoufles, frapparts escarnifles. “Ci n’ entrez pas, masche faim practiciens, Clercs, basochiens, mangeurs de populaire, Officiaulx, scribes et pharisiens, Juges anciens,” etc., etc. [104] The first edition of “Pantagruel” dates back to 1553, and the year following he was physician at the Lyons Hospital, where he made first, _before Vesalius_, anatomical lectures on the human cadaver. [105] This origin of the French thermal sources is very curious, and certainly ignored by ordinary patients.