" And so _Heil-bronn_ means
"holy-well," or "healthy-well." We have in the Scotch "hale;" and,
I suppose our English word "whole"--with a "w"--all of one piece,
without any hole in it--is the same word. I find that you could
not get any better definition of what "holy" really is than
"healthy--completely healthy." _Mens sana in corpore sano_.
(Applause.)
A man with his intellect a clear, plain, geometric mirror, brilliantly
sensitive of all objects and impressions around it, and imagining all
things in their correct proportions--not twisted up into convex or
concave, and distorting everything, so that he cannot see the truth of
the matter without endless groping and manipulation--healthy, clear,
and free, and all round about him. We never can attain that at all.
In fact, the operations we have got into are destructive of it. You
cannot, if you are going to do any decisive intellectual operation--if
you are going to write a book--at least, I never could--without
getting decidedly made ill by it, and really you must if it is your
business--and you must follow out what you are at--and it sometimes
is at the expense of health.
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