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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: in which sense an electrician or a biologist, a Faraday or a Darwin,
would be a magician; and when he compares medical magic to the
Cabalistic science, of which I spoke just now (and in which he seems
to have believed), he only means, I think, that as the Cabala
discovers hidden meaning and virtues in the text of Scripture, so
ought the man of science to find them in the book of nature. But
this kind of talk, wrapt up too in the most confused style, or
rather no style at all, is quite enough to account for ignorant and
envious people accusing him of magic, saying that he had discovered
the philosopher's stone, and the secret of Hermes Trismegistus; that
he must make gold, because, though he squandered all his money, he
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