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which can exist for any great length of time, now 

 that people are every day becoming more and more 

 awake to the importance of scientific investigation 

 and to the astounding and unexpected manner in 

 which it everywhere reacts upon practical pursuits. 

 I should look upon the establishment of some 

 institution of that kind as a recognition on the 

 part of the medical profession in general, that if 

 their great and beneficent work is to be carried 

 on, they must, like other people who have great 

 and beneficent work to do, contribute to the 

 advancement of knowledge in the only way in 

 which experience shows that it can be advanced. 



