Dr. Percival, 21 



So many of the evils that every newspaper almost daily 

 speaks of are thus shown to be old diseases of poor 

 mankind. 



To call attention to such conditions was fine work for a 

 young man to do. The immediate effects we cannot fully 

 enter on, or rather we must pass over them, and we must 

 neglect to allude to numerous influential essays which he 

 wrote on various subjects, making only occasional allusions 

 to some as occasion may serve. 



