The significance of moderation and balance across various domains has been sanctioned for millennia deviations from midpoints virtues, traits, qualities, other attributes have described as dysfunctional suggesting a nonmonotonic, U-shaped curve. Modern scholarship lay interpretations the virtue humility neglected this perspective appear to tacitly assume that is an unmitigated good leaders shou...

Jimmy appeared to be a normal child and when he was three and had bronchitis his parents were shocked to be told that he had congenital heart disease. He was, however, able to do everything like other boys and seemed so healthy that they thought less and less of this, until when he was about 12 he became more breathless on playing games: he had gradually developed highcoloured cheeks and his fa...

Thomas Browne was born in 1605. His father was a London merchant about whom little is known. His mother married a second time and Thomas's stepfather, Sit Thomas Dutton, gave him an excellent education, first at Winchester and then at Bradgate Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford. His undergraduate career was distinguished and he acquired a BA in 1626, followed by a MA in 1629. After a visit to I...

Much has been written and spoken in tribute to Sir Gordon Arthur Ransome (G.A. R. to those who know him well) ; none of these have done adequate justice to the greatness of this Man. My tribute here would befall the same fate. Nevertheless, I shall try to pay tribute to G.A.R. -a tribute to the man I knew. G.A.R. was a humble man. He treated his students and junior staff as his equal. He talked...

Well before 1859, the veterinary surgeon William Youatt was hailing selection as ‘the magician’s wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases’. Youatt had in mind the power of the breeder in the barnyard, but his words, quoted in the Origin of Species, equally capture the spirit of Darwin’s performance on the page, the sense the reader has of an effortless ...

Lester Reynolds Dragstedt was trained initially as a physiologist and subsequently became a surgeon. He achieved renown not only because of his intellectual and technical skills, but because he was able to utilize physiological principles to define the development of surgical procedures. A humble upbringing in Anaconda, Montana was followed by a scientific education in Chicago. His brief backgr...

"Some there be, which have no memdrial: Who are perished, as if they had never been; And are become as if they had never been born." In this category of Ecclesiasticus, Robert Campbell was not to be placed, for such was the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues, that his memory has been perpetuated in a way which falls to the lot of a very few; in a Memorial Oration, which now it is my ...

our problem in this article is ibn miskawayh’s analysis of the nature of happiness, and its methodology is descriptive- analytic. ibn miskawayh considers happiness as “good” and “perfection” with respect to their holders; so, he establishes some inseparability between happiness, and good and perfection. ibn miskawayh has two definitions for the concept of good. he divides this conception into s...

He gave the following history of his illness :? During the last six months he had had repeated attacks of ' colicky pain' in the abdomen not confined to any particular area, vomiting and constipation, each attack lasting for about a week or so. The present troubles began six weeks ago with the initial symptons of vomiting, constipation and abdominal pain, of an indefinite character, at first be...

‘‘He inflicts none of those small pains and discomforts which irregular men scatter about them and which in the aggregate so often become formidable obstacles both to happiness and utility; while on the contrary he bestows all the pleasures, and inspires all that ease of mind on those around him or connected with him, with perfect consistency, and (if such a word might be framed) absolute relia...