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is danger lest men metamorphose into machines." I won't say 

 talking machines, lest I be accused of addressing myself particu- 

 larly. And again, it was the New England philosopher who said 

 that a man may metamorphose into a thing belonging to the pro- 

 fession ; the preacher into the sermon, the physician into the 

 prescription, and I suppose he might have added, had he known 

 of you, "the pharmacist into the drug." Do not be machines; do 

 not be things. Serve your own reasoning powers, that is what an 

 education is given you for : that you may think, that you may 

 reason, that you may be personalities. 



Now, I said in the second place I would have you honest men 

 and women. I do not mean to say that it is only a chemist, a- 

 pharmacist or a food analyist who is tempted not to be honest. 

 Just as much temptation comes to men in the medical profession, 

 in the legal profession and in the ministry or any one of the 

 callings, not to be honest; to be merelv an instrument of the 

 times, instead of being an upright teacher of his day, just as the 

 lawyer becomes a special pleader in the interest of profit rather 

 than a servant of justice. But you, on the other hand, have 

 peculiar temptations. 



I am glad to learn what I learned a moment ago, from the 

 venerable and vet altogether young dean of all pharmacy in New 

 York, Mr. Ewen Mclntyre, that it was sixty years ago that the 

 College of Pharmacy inaugurated a campaign for a pure food law. 

 Now, it is not for me to speak of pure food and pure drugs in 

 the presence of a gentleman who almost became a martyr to that 

 cause. Yet aroused sympathy and awakened interest in the cause 

 as the result of that martyrdom are no small part of the achieve- 

 ments of Wiley and Rusby. 



I ask these young men and women to be honest in their work: 

 honest in their calling. Now, some of you may say. "But we have 

 got to live." Yes, you are entitled to life, you are entitled to a 

 reward for ail your work and study and service, but never let your 

 desire to profit, to gain, to advance, in the worldly sense of these 

 terms, bring about an abatement of your devotion to the high 

 ideals of your scientific, almost ethical calling. 



( To be Continued. ) 



