Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Valedictory Address at the Fourth Annual Commencement of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College
The question, then, which we propose to discuss brie?y this evening, is a pertinent one on an occa sion like the present.
What position ought the Medical Profession to occupy in the ranks of this mighty onward movement? And I reply in the first place The world demands a thoroughly educated and shil fally trained medical profession.
The days of pretence have passed away. Broad parchments and high-sounding titles are no longer the passports to success. He who would achieve and maintain a position in the world must do it by brains rightly applied, must learn sooner or later the lesson, that there is no royal highway to success, that he who would leave his mark on the age must not only possess knowledge, but know how to apply it to the best advantage. Not every man may be a genius, for the genius appears upon the stage not once in an age, appears for some great purpose, and startles the world with his far-reaching knowledge, or the greatness and grandeur of his acts. We can almost number them on our fingers' ends. But every man of ordinary intelligence may, by proper training, so develop his mental resources that in the great contest of life he shall perform his duty nobly and well, and do something for the regeneration of the world. No man has any right in this world, to breathe its air, to live in its sunlight, and eat of the fruits of the earth, unless he can do something to make that world better, something to help on the grand work of a world's development and regeneration.
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