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Excerpt from Thoughts of Schools of Medicine, Their Means of Instruction, and Modes of Administration, With References to the Schools of Louisville and Lexington
Such are the facts of the case, free from perversion, exaggeration, or varnish. I inquire then of the enlightened, the magnanimous, and even of the merciful, whether Dr. Dudley is entitled from me to aught but the strictness of retributive justice? As his weapons have been falsehood and a language scarcely superior to that of Billings gate, has he a right to expect from me in return any thing more than plain truth, and decorous language? On a spirit so rancorous and ignominious as his, lenity would be thrown away. He would not feel its awakening in?uence. It is on the head of the benevolent and the magnanimous, that forgiveness of injuries, or good in return for evil, operates like coals of fire, softening their temper, and reforming their conduct. And Dr. Dudley is not of that caste. If he can be reformed at all, it must be by eastlgation and terror, -by the actual application of the scourge, and by being given fully to under stand, that even-handed justice is almost sure to return the poisoned chalice to the lips of the murderous wretch who has drugged it.
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