"Almost every student who devotes himself seriously to the pursuit of learning complains of weakness of the stomach. For while the brain is digesting what is supplied by the passion for knowledge and the hunger for learning, the stomach cannot properly digest its own supply of foods.... As a rule, then, learned men are liable to fits of melancholia, and all the more when this temperament has been allotted to them originally. We know from observation that those who are genuinely devoted to learnign are lean, wan, lead coloured and want to lead the life of hermits."
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Date: 2007-11-23 04:13 pm (UTC)"Almost every student who devotes himself seriously to the pursuit of learning complains of weakness of the stomach. For while the brain is digesting what is supplied by the passion for knowledge and the hunger for learning, the stomach cannot properly digest its own supply of foods.... As a rule, then, learned men are liable to fits of melancholia, and all the more when this temperament has been allotted to them originally. We know from observation that those who are genuinely devoted to learnign are lean, wan, lead coloured and want to lead the life of hermits."