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we ourselves. This frame is a temporary trust, for the uses 

 of which we are responsible to the Maker. 



Oh ! you who possess it in all the supple vigour of lusty 

 youth, think well what it is that He has committed to your 

 keeping. Waste not its energies ; dull them not by sloth : 

 spoil them not by pleasures ! The supreme work of Creation 

 has been accomplished that you might possess a body the 

 sole erect of all animal bodies the most free and for what? 

 for the service of the soul. 



Strive to realise the conditions of the possession of this 

 wondrous structure. Think what it may become the Temple of 

 the Holy Spirit ! Defile it not. Seek, rather, to adorn it with 

 all meet and becoming gifts, with that fair furniture, moral 

 and intellectual, which it is your inestimable privilege to ac- 

 quire through the teachings and examples and ministrations 

 of this Seat of Sound Learning and Eeligious Education. 



Such, Sir, are the sentiments that have naturally flowed 

 from the contemplation of the highest of the gradations of 

 Mammalian structure of which we have now completed the 

 ascensive survey : and I know of no topic more fitting to the 

 words in which, with a grateful sense of the most kind re- 

 ception and attention accorded to me, I conclude the duty of 

 this Chair. 



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