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now saying may rather annoy than gra- 

 tify the feelings of my preceptor. What 

 I have stated, however, is a tribute due 

 from me to him ; and I pay it on the 

 present occasion, in hopes that the same 

 precepts and motives may have the same 

 effect on the minds of the junior part of 

 my audience, as they were accustomed 

 in general to have upon the pupils of 

 Sir William Blizard. 



That which most dignifies man, is the 

 cultivation of those intellectual faculties 

 which distinguish him from the brute 

 creation. We should indeed seek truth ; 

 feel its importance ; and act as the dic- 

 tates of reason direct. By exercising the 

 powers of our minds in the attainment 

 of medical knowledge we learn and may 

 improve a science of the greatest public 

 utility. We have need of enthusiasm, 

 or of some strong incentive, to induce 



