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English University men remain in their present 

 state of barbarous ignorance of even the rudiments 

 of scientific culture. 



Yet another step needs to be made before Sci- 

 ence can be said to have taken its proper place in 

 the Universities. That is its recognition as a Fac- 

 ulty, or branch of study demanding recognition 

 and special organisation, on account of its bearing 

 on the wants of mankind. The Faculties of The- 

 ology, Law, and ]Medicine, are technical schools, 

 intended to equip men who have received general 

 culture, with the special knowledge which is 

 needed for the proper performance of the duties 

 of clergymen, lawyers, and medical practitioners. 



When the material well-being of the country 

 depended upon rude pasture and agriculture, and 

 still ruder mining; in the days when all the in- 

 numerable applications of the principles of physi- 

 cal science to practical purposes were non-existent 

 even as dreams; days which men living may have 

 heard their fathers speak of; what little physical 

 science could be seen to bear directly upon hu- 

 man life, lay within the province of Medicine. 

 IMedicine was the foster-mother of Chemistry, be- 

 cause it has to do with the preparation of drugs 

 and the detection of poisons; of Botany, because 

 it enabled the physician to recognise medicinal 

 herbs; of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, 

 because the man who studied. Human Anatomy 

 and Physiology for purely medical purposes was 

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