Excerpt from Confessio MediciNot all confession is of sins: and a man may confess his faith, his ignorance, or his love. Use the word as we will, it means no more than this, that he goes outside himself for answer, assurance, audience. Faith joins the company of the faithful, ignorance asks for enlightenment, and love asks for love. We do not talk of confessing Euclid, or cookery, or sport: for they are complete in themselves. To confess, is to appeal to our fellow creatures, it may be to one, it may be to all, for sympathy and a fair hearing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.