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worthy of the name. Leave out the Physiological 

 sciences from your curriculum, and you launch the 

 student into the world, undisciplined in that science 

 whose subject-matter would best develop his powers of 

 observation ; ignorant of facts of the deepest importance 

 for his own and others' welfare ; blind to the richest 

 sources of beauty in God's creation ; and unprovided 

 with that belief in a living law, and an order manifesting 

 itself in and through endless change and variety, which 

 might serve to check and moderate that phase of despair 

 through which, if he take an earnest interest in social 

 problems, he will assuredly sooner or later pass. 



Finally, one word for myself. I have not hesitated to 

 speak strongly where I have felt strongly ; and I am but 

 too conscious that the indicative and imperative moods 

 have too often taken the place of the more becoming 

 subjunctive and conditional. I feel, therefore, how 

 necessary it is to beg you to forget the personality of 

 him who has thus ventured to address you, and to con- 

 sider only the truth or error in what has been said* 



