The very completeness of the humiliation of Germany was the means of her deliverance.
Their English contemporaries and successors, John Freind, William Cole, and Richard Mead, leaned also to mechanical explanations, but with a distrust of systematic theoretical completeness, which was perhaps partly a national characteristic, partly the result of the teaching of Sydenham and Locke.
James Keill (1673-1719) applied Newtonian and mechanical principles to the explanation of bodily functions with still greater accuracy and completeness; but his researches have more importance for physiology than for practical medicine.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul.
For the sake of completeness, we list them here.
