With the hot blasts of hate still on our cheeks, it may seem a mockery to speak of this as the saving asset in our future; but is it not the very marrow of the teaching in which we have been brought up? At last the gospel of the right to live, and the right to live healthy, happy lives, has sunk deep into the hearts of the people; and before the war, so great was the work of science in preventing untimely death that the day of Isaiah seemed at hand, when a man's life should be "more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." There is a sentence in the writings of the Father of Medicine upon which all commentators have lingered, "[Greek: ên gar parê philanthrôpiê, paresti kai philotechniê]"[19]--the love of humanity associated with the love of his craft!--philanthropia and philotechnia--the joy of working joined in each one to a true love of his brother. Memorable sentence indeed! in which for the first time was coined the magic word "philanthropy," and conveying the subtle suggestion that perhaps in this combination the longings of humanity may find their solution, and Wisdom--_Philosophia_--at last be justified of her children. [19] _oeuvres complètes d' Hippocrates._ Par E. Littré, IX, 258. THE END The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A Transcriber Notes: Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "OE". Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. Footnotes were moved to after the paragraph they were referenced in. On page 26, the second open parenthesis was replaced with a closed parenthesis. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Humanities and the New Science, by William Osler