“Physician of the Iron Age,
Goethe has done his pilgrimage.
He took the suffering human race,
He read each wound, each weakness clear —
And struck his finger on the place,
And said — Thou ailest here, and here.”

— Matthew Arnold

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Memorial Verses (1852)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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