XII 

 ON MEDICAL EDUCATION 



[1870] 



IT has given me sincere pleasure to be here to-day, 

 at the desire of your highly respected President 

 and the Council of the College. In looking back 

 upon my own past, I am sorry to say that I have 

 found that it is a quarter of a century since I 

 took part in those hopes and in those fears by 

 which you have all recently been agitated, and 

 which now are at an end. But, although so long 

 a time has elapsed since I was moved by the same 

 feelings, I beg leave to assure you that my 

 sympathy with both victors and vanquished 

 remains fresh so fresh, indeed, that I could 

 almost try to persuade myself that, after all, 

 it cannot be so very long ago. My business 

 during the last hour, however, has been to show 

 that sympathy with one side only, and I assure 



