FAREWELL LECTURE, 



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IN addressing you, Gentlemen, as I now do, for the 

 last time, I shall, instead of giving a practical recapitu- 

 lation of the scientific topics which have passed in suc- 

 cession before us during the Course now terminated, 

 present to your consideration a few remarks with a view 

 to stimulate the inquiries of those who have recently 

 commenced their attendance in the Lecture Room, 

 as well as to encourage the more enlarged and compre- 

 hensive researches of those who have tasted some of the 

 pleasures and advantages of knowledge; and conclude 

 with such directions as to mental exertion, culture, and 

 discipline, as may not be inappropriate on this occasion. 



The genuine object of all sound education is the 

 development of the intellectual, the moral, and the 

 bodily faculties of man ; or, as it has been sometimes 

 more tersely expressed, the improvement and application 

 of head, heart, and limb. The system of education in 

 the institution in which you have the honour to receive 

 instruction, embraces all this. The blame will be your 

 own, and it will through life be the subject of regret, if 

 any of you quit this Academy without having acquired 



