So they had a doll made, and marked the
spots where they had put in needles without doing any harm. They must
have had accidents from sticking the needles into the wrong places now
and then, but I suppose they did n't say a great deal about those. After
a time, say a few centuries of experience, they had their doll all
spotted over with safe places for sticking in the needles. That is their
way of registering practical knowledge: We, on the other hand, study the
structure of the body as a whole, systematically, and have no difficulty
at all in remembering the track of the great vessels and nerves, and
knowing just what tracks will be safe and what unsafe. It is just the
same thing with the geologists. Here is a man close by us boring for
water through one of our ledges, because somebody else got water
somewhere else in that way; and a person who knows geology or ought to
know it, because he has given his life to it, tells me he might as well
bore there for lager-beer as for water.
--I thought we had had enough of this particular matter, and that I
should like to hear what the Master had to say about the three
professions he knew something about, each compared with the others.
What is your general estimate of doctors, lawyers, and ministers?--said
I.
--Wait a minute, till I have got through with your first question,--said
the Master.
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