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MONUMENT TO JENNER. 
event has been followed and accompanied by the most com- 
placent and absurd self-laudation on the part of all concerned. 
There has been nothing but “ booing” and speechifying ; 
and thanks and praises have been awarded with indis- 
criminate profuseness. We have all gone through antics of 
admiration at the liberality and the energy which subscribed, 
paid for, and erected a statue to the investigator of cowpox 
by the side of kings and military heroes. It were as well 
that a wholesome truth or two should be spoken. The 
statue does honour to the few men who have been at the 
pains and the risk of its erection. It does honour to Mr. 
Calder Marshall, whose veneration for Jenner led him to 
execute the model of the statue, and suggested the raising of 
a fund, and whose generous enthusiasm has supported him 
through this labour under much discouragement. The 
appreciative few may claim credit for their work if they are 
disposed ; they are the last to seek as we would be to deny 
it. But the statue cries shame on the niggard apathy of the 
people of England, whose contributions amount to less than 
one third of the subscription ; shame that foreign states have 
so easily surpassed them in respect to their own son ; shame 
that the scanty lists of pounds does not even repay the labour 
of the artist whose love and skill have wrought this monument ; 
shame that years have passed ere one poor bronze statue has 
with difficulty found a maker and a site after many failures 
to attain the like result ; shame, too, on the ladies of 
England, whose prized and seamless beauty this man may 
claim as a part of his gift, and who have forgotten to offer 
the smallest of their coins in his honour. Such a statue 
should have been erected by an universal suffrage. It is the 
poor especially who have cause to bless the saviour of their 
health and life in Jenner. Every poor man should be taught 
to associate that idea with his name. This indebtedness to 
Jenner should be pictured to him, and gratitude might have 
found a vent in the slightest offering towards his fame. 
Such a man as Jenner should have a monument founded by 
the pennies of the poor, as well as the pounds of the rich. 
It were to their own interest as well as to their honour. It is 
to the interest of the poor man that he should be now* and 
again brought face to face with the higher principles and 
grander feelings of humanity. It is well for his mind and 
for his soul that he should feel within himself the capacity to 
appreciate and the pow r er to reward those large benefits 
which science confers upon him in common with all other 
human beings. No man should pass that venerable form, 
seated in its academic chair, but should be able to say to 
