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Excerpt from Valedictory Address: Delivered to the Graduating Class, 31st March, 1882
That knowledge sometimes pu?'eth up its possessor is as true now as in the days of Saul of Tarsus, and probably more generally true now than at that time. If the dictum of that great and gifted mind were more generally known and received at the present day, and the conduct of men in?uenced by it, there would be fewer exhibitions of those pretentious and ob trusive claims of individuals to be regarded as burning and shining lights of science, - the ranks of scientists, as they call themselves, would be greatly thinned, and, I fear, that a goodir sized volume containing sketches more or less brief of the learned and distinguished men of this Dominion would shrink to one of very modest preportions. The dictatm of St. Paul is: If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. Lay this, then, to heart; and whilst it need not prevent you from indulging a feeling of proper pride in accomplished work and its favorable reception by your fellows, it will save you from overweening vanity and a constant and restless craving for notoriety.
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