VI. 
TRUTH, PATHOLOGY, AND THE PUBLIC. 
Address delivered at the Ceremony of Graduation in the 
University of Glasgow, Fuly 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 
