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instruction received at this " College of Natural 

 and Medical Science" would be so useful and 

 necessary, and so attractive withal, that the 

 sons of the great families would come to it to 

 finish their collegiate studies, to the great 

 benefit of the country. Other young men, in 

 considerable numbers, would flock to it from 

 various parts of the world. The foundation 

 of such an institution would be an epoch 

 in the history of science, and would give 

 England another claim to the esteem of 

 nations. 



I conclude, then, with a conviction that a 

 nation which owes to Lord Bacon, the founder 

 of experimental philosophy, his imperishable 

 book on the restoration, the method and 

 teaching of the sciences ; to Harvey, the 

 circulation ; to Priestley, the constitution of 

 chemistry; to Sydenham, the modern Hip- 

 pocrates, his treatise on " Practical Medicine" ; 

 to Jenner, vaccination ; and to Charles Bell, 

 the discovery of the sensitive and motor 

 nerves is a people too great and too enlight- 

 ened to retrograde ; and that, if the epizootia 

 of ox typhus did find them at first unready and 

 disarmed, they will in the end convert this 



