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Excerpt from Strictures on Some of the Defects and Infirmities of Intellectual and Moral Character, in Students of Medicine: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the University of Louisville, November 1st, 1847
The dangers which beset the members of this group, are not a few. While those whom I have just addressed, rely on their genius - these rely on their opportunities; but as genius untaxed is unproductive, so opportunities un improved are barren. A student of this group. Often says - if others can graduate on two courses of lectures, certainly I may pass through my third, without labor or anxiety. Here, again, is a downward tendency, and woe to him who takes it. Much that was learned the first year - im perfectly learned as it too often is - has to be learned anew in the third; much that would have been studied with intensity in the second, was passed carelessly over, because a third course had been decided on; and much that might have been learned in the last vacation, was postponed to the coming session. Such is the condition I fear, of almost every individ ual in the group [am now addressing. And is it a condition to justify in dolence, or inspire confidence in the future? Far from it! All common sense cries far from it! Experience proclaims aloud the same decision, and prudence weeps over the fatal delusion! Alas for the youth in his third session, who may turn a deaf ear to their warning voices, when thus united.
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