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It is at this point, as it seems to me, that Hahnemann displays the first and most important defect in his reasoning machinery. He allowed what seemed to him to be a most important and highly beneficent therapeutic truth immediately to take possession of his whole being,—indeed, to take such complete possession that, from this moment forward, throughout the remainder of his life, he was utterly unable to weigh with a calm and unprejudiced mind the various facts and considerations which ultimately relegated homoeopathy to its proper place in the medico-historical museum, alongside those hoary relics of methodism, incantations, the weaving of charms, Stahlism, Brunonianism, etc. In short, he lacked those immensely important mental characteristics which enabled Harvey to discover the more important facts relating to the circulation of the blood, and which made it possible for Jenner to place in the hands of his fellow men an effective weapon of defense against the deadly ravages of small-pox. If asked to say what are these characteristics, I would reply: A state of mind so open and so unprejudiced that it can weigh with absolute fairness all the evidence laid before it, and an imagination so clever and so fertile in resources that it is able to invent the means of reproducing at will all those phenomena which it is desirable to study more closely. These, I believe, are the characteristics which Hahnemann lacked and which are absolutely necessary for the creation of a permanently useful creed and principles of therapeutics.