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O lift your natures up: / Embrace our aims: work out your freedom. Girls, / Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed; / Drink deep until the habits of the slave, / The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite / And slander, die. / The Princess.
Whether medicine is a science, or only an empirical method of getting a living out of the ignorance of the human race, Ruth found before her first term was over at the medical school that there were other things she needed to know quite as much as that which is taught in medical books, and that she could never satisfy her aspirations without more general culture.