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ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES, ETC. 
The facilities for imposition are innumerable, and in the 
hands of a designing and unprincipled individual may 
readily be turned to profit. To be guilty of the practices, 
over which the upright disciple of pharmacy must mourn, 
is, to say the least of it, an utter recklessness of character 
and sacrifice of honour; but to take from the sick and dying 
the prop on which his hope for restoration and life depends, 
is inexcusable — nay, a heinous crime ; and I envy not the 
man who bears it on his conscience. No competition can 
warrant it; for where '« poverty but not the will consents" 
to acts so flagrant, better abandon the profession and seek 
an honest living in some other ; for as the sentiment is not 
too strongly expressed, that " an honest man is the noblest 
work of God," no one, whose head and heart are right, can 
deliberately surfer himself to be undeserving the eulogy. 
Gentlemen, I have now concluded the remarks which I 
proposed to make at the commencement of this address, 
and I commit them to your serious consideration. The 
standard of success which has been held before you is high, 
but I am certain, that were it less so, it would not satisfy 
your wishes. What has been said in urging you to strive 
for its attainment, is not all that might have been appro- 
priately said. The ethics by which pharmacy should be 
regulated are wide spread and minute, extending them- 
selves into an infinitude of ramifications. To embrace the 
whole in a single discourse would be impossible. I submit 
the subject to your reflection, confident of the result; and 
feeling that all our labour and anxiety will not be lost upon 
you. May prosperity and happiness bestow their smiles 
upon you ; and if adversity should come, may its iron grasp 
be mitigated by the consciousness of rectitude. Approve 
yourselves like men, and you cannot fail to be ornaments of 
the community in which your destiny is cast, and sustain 
the credit of the College by which you have been adopted. 
Farewell. 
