I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.


Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1926)


I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a...

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a...

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a...

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a...