A Call for New Studies

I replied in the affirmative. “Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth,

“every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost.

You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God!

in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies,

which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as

they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple

of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely

anew.”