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which volition had excited for the support 

 of the additional weight. Thus was it ma- 

 nifested that the man possessed both con- 

 sciousness and volition, and the impostor 

 stood revealed. 



Having thus told you, gentlemen, what 

 appeared to me as distinguishing traits in 

 the character of the man whom I have 

 already eulogized for having made surgery 

 a science i for having the penetration to 

 discern the direct path of knowledge, and 

 the talents and industry to remove all the 

 obstacles which concealed or impeded , its 

 entrance ; for having conducted us to a 

 certain extent so prosperously, that it must 

 be our own fault indeed if we do not ad- 

 vance to more perfect discoveries of still 

 obscure and remote objects : — I may then 

 conclude, that so long as surgeons feel 

 an interest in- the improvement and re- 

 putation of their profession, or a value for 

 their own character as men of science, so 

 long will the name of John Hunter be 

 remembered by them with gratitude and 

 respect : or in Virgil's beautiful and often 

 quoted language I may say. 



Semper honos, nomenque suum iaudesque manebunt. 



