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name. Leave out the Physiological sciences from your curric 

 ulum, 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 import 

 ance 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 

 consider only the truth or error in what has been said. 



