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future kuowu relations to that which is subtile in the domains of biol- 

 ogy and i^sychology, beyond that which lias hitherto been attained. 



In this view Science need not desjiaii-, and has no right to give 

 over its efforts nor neglect its opportunities to obtain appreciable evi- 

 dence, however slight it may at first appeal*, of a future life one which 

 the doctrine of evolution demands should be a higher development, one 

 of greater possibilities than this. The aspiration after such a life is as 

 mxich a develojoment of the soul as is intelligence, or reason, or a de- 

 sire to know causes, and there is the same reason to believe tliat it 

 has its foundation in a corresponding reality. 



And, great as have been the triumphs of science hitherto great as 

 has been the light which the grand thought of evolution has thrown 

 u]5on the whole plan and system of the universe nothing hitherto ac- 

 complished could compare in grandeur with the physical demonstra- 

 tion of a higher mode of life and action than that attainable with our 

 present organization and present limitations ; a demonstration which 

 would enable man to lie down to sleep with the Jcnowledge that he 

 will awaken to an enlarged and ever-enlarging, conscious, future life. 



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ADDEESS TO MEDICAL STUDEA^TS.' 



By Eev. E. a. WASHBUEX, D. D. 



I AM glad of the privilege, gentlemen of the Medical College, of 

 meeting to-day so many who are masters and students in the 

 school of science. For if, as I believe, all our studies, whether of 

 Natiire or mind, are only chapters of one book, there can be nothing 

 wiser in our day, when the growing mass of learning almost compels 

 a microscopic research and somewhat of a microscopic bias nothing 

 wiser than at times to interchange our points of vievr. It is, indeed, 

 one of the phases of that heredity, of which so much is said at present, 

 that our callings bequeath their mental habits, so that the clergyman 

 seems often born Avithout the power of inductive reasoning, and the nat- 

 uralist with a suspicion of all that cannot be analyzed by his blow-pipe. 

 Yet I am sure that you are of a larger school than this ; and in that 

 feeling I venture to put before you a few thoughts on the mutual rela- 

 tions of scientific culture. I shall not try your patience by a treatise 

 on the Mosaic cosmogony or evolution ; and, indeed, I must ask your 

 allowance beforehand, if I betray in my remarks that surface knowl- 

 edge of gases or nervous tissues, not strange to one more busied with 

 Greek aorists and primitive-church deposits. It is your noble calling 

 to be students in that branch of science, perhaps the most fruitful of 



' Delivered recently to the graduating class of the New York College of Physicians 

 and Sursreons. 



