VI. 



TRUTH, PATHOLOGY, AND THE PUBLIC. 



Address delivered at the Ceremony of Graduation in the 

 University of Glasgow, July 1880. 



Gentlemen, the duty devolves upon me to address 

 to you a few words of congratulation on the present 

 auspicious epoch of your lives. Auspicious may it 

 prove to all of you. To all it must be a satisfaction 

 that you no longer have examinations to look 

 forward to, and no longer feel obliged to read 

 wearily for such ordeals, instead of studying for 

 the sake of information. It is to be hoped, there- 

 fore, that your days of study are not now over, but 

 only about to begin, and that the education which 

 you have received at College will prove principally 

 useful by teaching you the methods to be pursued 

 in acquiring knowledge during the rest of your 

 lives. 



All education proceeds on one of two plans the 

 pin-cushion plan, which regards the mind as a dead 



