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“‘The Profounder Wisdom’ of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.2 (2011): 205-23. Hawthorne emphasizes the importance of ‘sympathy’, ‘humanity’, and ‘community’ in contrast to the systematic pursuit of perfection that destroys Aylmer and Georgiana of “The Birthmark”. Aylmer desires perfection and wishes to control nature. He believes that he can attain scientific perfection but his actual goal will be the destruction of the nature. Hawthorne warns the readers that scientific perfection will be achieved only through the understanding nature not manipulating it. Hawthorne also emphasizes that the attempt to gain perfection leads a human beings to forget that he is human created by ‘humus’, the earth. That is ‘the profounder wisdom’ in “The Birthmark” of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Howon University)