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for successful followers of science, it is to be 

 hoped that, in addition to the many new open- 

 ings in industrial pursuits, the gradual but sure 

 development of sanitary administration and sta- 

 tistical inquiry may in time afford the needed 

 profession. These and adequately paid profes- 

 sorships may, as I sincerely hope they will, even 

 in our days, give rise to the establishment of 

 a sort of scientific priesthood throughout the 

 kingdom, whose high duties would have re- 

 ference to the health and well-being of the 

 nation in its broadest sense, and whose emolu- 

 ments and social position would be made 

 commensurate with the importance and variety 

 of their functions, fit 



