Excerpt from Lord Lister: His Life and Work
It is impossible to separate a genius from all time. His work, however much it may be concerned with the special features of the period in which he lived, is always founded upon the first principles of life. Therein lies its distinction. The work of most men is concerned only with the setting and spirit of the times in which they themselves live. But the work of a genius is based upon the unchangeable foundations of human life and earns, in consequence, its immortality.
The life and work of the late Lord Lister was of this kind. It affected man's relation to sickness and disease more fundamentally than the work of any other philosophic physician devoted to these problems. For Lister was emphatically far more than a great surgeon: he was far more the founder of modern surgery. He was a great philosopher whose thought never deviated from the central problem of life the mystery and quality of vitality. As a philosopher Lister is far too little known.
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