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medical praclitiontT oii^lit to be a person of edu- 

 cation and good general culture; but I also hold 

 by the old theory of a Faculty, that a man should 

 have his general culture before he devotes himself 

 to the special studies of that Faculty; and 1 ven- 

 ture to maintain, that, if the general culture ob- 

 tained in the Faculty of Arts were what it ought 

 to be, the student would have quite as much 

 knowledge of the fundamental principles of Phys- 

 ics, of Chemistry, and of Biology, as he needs, be- 

 fore he commenced his special medical studies. 



i\Ioreover, I would urge, that a thorough study 

 of Human Physiology is, in itself, an education 

 broader and more comprehensive than much that 

 passes under that name. There is no side of the 

 intellect which it does not call into play, no region 

 of human knowledge into which either its roots, 

 or its branches, do not extend; like the xVtlantic 

 between the Old and the New Worlds, its waves 

 wash the shores of the two worlds of matter and 

 of mind; its tributary streams flow from both; 

 throuirh its waters, as vet unfurrowed by the keel 

 of anv Cohunbus, lies the road, if such there be, 

 from the one to the other; far away from that 

 North-west Passage of mere speculation, in 

 M-hich so many brave souls have been hopelessly 

 frozen up. 



But whether I am right or wrong about all 

 this, the patent fact of the limitation of time re- 

 mains. As the song runs: — 



