2 LECTURE I, 



wary in admitting propositions to be facts 

 before you have submitted them to the 

 strictest examination. If, after this, you 

 beheve them to be true, never disregard 

 or forget any one of them, however un- 

 important it may at the time appear. 

 Should you perceive truths to be im- 

 portant, make them motives of action ; 

 let them serve as springs to your con- 

 duct." 



" Many persons," he remarked, " acknow- 

 ledge truth with apathy ; they assent to 

 it, but it produces no further effect on 

 their minds. Truths, however, are of im- 

 portance, in proportion as they admit of 

 inferences which ought to have an in- 

 fluence on our conduct ; and if we neglect 

 to draw those inferences, or to act in 

 conformity to them, we fail in essential 

 duties." 



Our preceptor further contrived by various 

 means to excite a degree of enthusiasm 

 in the minds of his pupils. He displayed 

 to us the heau ideal of the medical 



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