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living in misery and ignorance, in disease and 

 corruption. The time is not come shall 

 we ever see it ? to employ the vital powers of 

 the peoples, to better incessantly their social 

 condition. Perhaps, by reason of its organiza- 

 tion, the Government of this country would not 

 be authorized to devote 100,000/. or 200,000/. 

 to the establishment of an institution like the 

 medical college I suggest, notwithstanding its 

 paramount necessity. But England is in the 

 habit of doing great things independently of 

 the Government. In default of the ruling 

 powers, then, let me appeal to the national 

 initiative, for if the spectacle which we are at 

 present witnessing was not, in the case of 

 England, one of those trials which invigorate 

 a people by the salutary teachings which they 

 bring ; if it did not induce them to take some 

 energetic resolution by which their interests 

 would be saved and their power enlarged, it 

 would indeed be a deplorable sign of the times 

 and make us despair of its future. 



Moreover, to show the urgency of founding 

 a College of Natural and Medical Science, let us 

 add, that in every other country they are en- 

 deavouring to unite this indispensable comple- 



