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PROFESSOR MORTON’S LECTURES. 
those whofwish to make short work of study, and who tell you 
that no compensating good results from a continued application 
of: your mind to it; that you should relax a little — would this 
were all ! — and that “ by and by” will be time enough to learn all 
that is required. Fatal error ! A rock on which thousands have 
struck. Remember ! I warn you against it. 
If it be true that knowledge is power, its antithesis, ignorance 
is weakness, is no less so ; and should you inconsiderately 
and vauntingly think that, although you have neglected these 
admonitions, yet you have obtained much fruit, I tell you that 
you have been deluded. Fair it may be to the eye, but it will 
prove like the apples of Sodom, which, when bitten, filled the 
mouth with ashes ! There are few things a mind properly dis- 
ciplined cannot learn ; and although the study of every science 
presents at first many difficulties, yet, if a resolution is made to 
overcome them, and the mental energies are simultaneously di- 
rected to accomplish that object, they disappear, and, like an 
aerial vision, leave not a trace behind. 
And now, lest words of mine should have fallen listlessly on 
the ears of any, I will close with the soul-stirring sentiments of 
Dr. Gregory, in his address to the students when about to retire 
from the Professor’s chair: I am sure it cannot fail to make an 
impression on your minds, and such an impression as, I trust, 
will never be effaced. 
“ If,” said he, “ knowledge is power, and you love power 
and influence — pursue it ! 
“ If knowledge carry in its train extended usefulness, and you 
ove to be extensively useful in your profession and the world — 
pursue it ! 
“ If knowledge, united with uprightness, bring esteem and 
confidence, and you love to be esteemed and confided in — pur- 
sue it ! 
“ If knowledge, rightly conducted and directed to right ends, 
brings you nearer to the fountain of knowledge, and thus makes 
you more happy, while it enlarges your capacity of conferring 
happiness upon others, and you love to be happy and to confer 
happiness — pursue it! !” 
