The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-22

this doubt not will be one Of our most valued tokens
in future life. have said that We shsl make at
tempt at coercion increasing the requirements for
graduation but letting that remain where 10 is shall try
what can be done by nducement Nor should you in
presented to him What here Offering falls vastly
short Of what might be regarded the ideal OF
mediate Is the study Of man his health his
diseases but how intimately this is connected with the
yourselves to the immediate object before you, but
would examine it's relations to those around it, and find
how they illustrate or affect It man who buys an
estate would scarcely rest satisfied with walking
straight through the middle Of il; he goes all round its
boundaries looks where his neighbours fences come in
upon It, and observes with satisfaction where his fences
make broad sweep upon them. lie examines where ths
public roads cross him, and finds qualification in OBJ
serving what rights Of he has the adjacent
fields And To- in your profession you ought to feel
intererest in whatever connected with living things
for they illustrate the chief objects Of your study
lock upon the whole world of organization as continu
GUS system, in which man does not maintain position
isolat, alone 1t been too much the error OF
physicians and Psychologists regard our species az
though it was above the common law of the universe
something wholly distinct from other forms You
cannot reason from the brutes has been almost
sphorism. The great advances that have been made
in zoology, comparative anatomy and embryoogy with
in the last few years have abundanty shown that tbs
path Of physiological study lies through that very
channel The vegetable world its existence to the
light Of the No matter what the temperature may
be, plant develope itself in the darkness That
cass Of forms therefore only exist where the solar
II plants are the daughters of light, animals
the children Of heat closely dependent that prin
particular range Of temperature Standing in this
rsrge of ansgonism to each other, they mutually
the ministers Of each other All organized matter Is
made by plants under the influence Of the light Of tbs
and is returned back to the dead condition from
which came by the systems of animals and that
great central orb is in fact the handspring of the world
Of life The at the greatest the noblest and
most glorious Of all created thingsthe vcegerent and
a fitting representative of the Most High--who shone
upon this globe when there vestge Of life upon
IT, bare bleak recks and sulen whose ngers-the
many eoored rays Of nghthave pa .ed here every ami
te he
TEEN with life. Nor must you think because many
belonging to beth king of Organization have in the
old geological times disappeared that there is
mperfection In the universal plan a want of power
or of uniform action ia the agent What, 1t be
true. we know that for every tribe existing, .
bouss nd have become extinct does that rather
claim the march Of deveopement going ons
composed? Wher II has done its duty and become
eete it dies out and is cast away There Is lie aud
death for each particle: there is life and death for
each individual there is lie and de ath for the
too. Nor do these revolutions any more than the
revolutions OF empires, ever go backwards Man dies
and he returnsa species, tribe genus dies; it
rever returns. OF the crowds Of plants and animals
which utterly extinct, there is solitary instance
Of a re appearance As in the mechanism Of own
bodies dying particle is forthwith replaced by
and vigorous one in the social circle the
DIS TIE place his In the OF the
world a dying has another put in The
dead back Each living being bears it
the i'm pre- So Of the circu which
IL; 1t is as it embodiment, reaeo
ton OF the ply steal agents to which has been exposed
ard like the bubbles on the sea which iinger for mo
reflect the forms and colors of adjacent things
and then sink back Into the ocean from whence they
and others arise in their stead so both with indi
theI-as there is amly Ekenefs between parent and
osprings in these requirements going forward the
SCALE II Ia not strange novelty that Is introduced
but class Of bipgs having snites and relationships
with all others around And II comes to pass that
those who Lis contemporaries. and those who have
been before him. The Laws under which he has been
developed have Get their ttsmp upon him and his corpo
real IL full a "Reminiscences OF the through
which his tribe has have already said hs Is
solitary snd slonei his pride be mortified 10 eaen
that he has sbities with the beast the fish the reptile
The DEVELOPMENT from separate centres OF his crapiL
bones representative of the permsuent construction
q the IN ull Of lSh the white bands that his
straight biennial muscles he rudimeats about to
vanish at Il abdominal rss Of snakes Ia the remarks
here making do design CONVEX the idea which OF
late years has been prominently and popularity put
FORTH that the Of creation has been from the ess
to the more perfect Geological observations do not
warrant that There H. TO suppose that the
beginnings Of life either In the animal vegetable
world were inperf ct or oboure and that gradually
improved copstructions arose, and a high c0mpexty
war at last rssched On the contrary 1t appears that
the has been from the general to the special
The primitive beings containing In themss IL
the rudimenta, in imperfect way Of their
and these Iudmen have, after another. gone into
devtlo.mert and the various types of construction
have arisen. Nor do here intend to inquire how far
external ply jeal agents have had influence hess
proceFfes For my object II mmaterid whether you
ute the appearances Of these various forms TO the
direct creative ntervel ton Of the Almighty whether
you admit that be has been Ileased to commit tho
charge 20 secondary and ply steal agents The point
which am insisting Is the relationship OF to eli
the other orders Of nature, and the absolute impos
sibity Of clearly understanding his structure and
functions, except by the study of theirs Then,
gentlemen, IL Is not enough that you so into the
dis,,cting rom TO inspect skeleton, or expose thu
muscles the blood vessels the nerves Does man take
watch to pieces for the purpose Of studying mechanics
and getting az The first principles Of action Of tins lsver
or the wheel Human anatomy, and human ply sioosy,
only to be learnt through comparative anatomy and
comparative physiology For the elesr understanding
from ts first beginning in come low order Of animal
life. through all its raDyipg and Increasing complex
fetched and One ,pup ' A s,udsnt hss not tim. 70
trouble himself with these rehnsmsnts IL is munh
% he can Do to tequant hmself With The practical
brsrehss. The practical branches am sick Of the
v0iy phrase IL the mechanics Of the profession
s you is,k, the sooner you abandon IL the better Il
anlputaton k.ep skeleton and ride about saddle
beg, stuffed with calomcl and iaaP have said that
the sratomy q only be perfectly understood
IN, oush the ar atuy inferior animals and that tina
holds seed for bis physiology; but nov take
stronger position ard assert that the diseases OF man
can only be thoroughly upderstood when comparative
pathology l. perfect. Comparative pathology! Why,
The science only nov eeynnirg to exist Bat perhaps
the opportunity Cose at hand for physician to achieve
reputation, such hitherto has only been possible
for great soldier aud the founders Of religious systems.
and ,nulatirg the Garth gensn captain Of old may
TO d,vcte HE life to IT, SO rapid Is the advance
Of the great sciences anatomy chemistry, physiology,
that mos; assuTedy In ss than twenty years the great
Thysician vii have The man Il born Who
m CT upheld our old profsens theories and hsy, tired
to kep In the CID opinions aud the old mcs
md that snder the adNsrce 81 the exact sciences our
position is becoming untenAhle The ground 4 slipping
asay from beneath cur feet. We the break of
giest revolution. 90 where you will among iatelgept
ply cisns you find deep. though Il may be an ins~
unct perception that great change Is imminent IN
politics In rcli sion every crisis finds IL repre@nts
tive and embodiment IN some Il " too much 70
hope that In this nation q practical msn one may D
fund no will stand forth the teacher ana master
ply siciapshe greatest Of all the benef-etors OF our
race who will do for medicine what Newton dd Tor as
trcn my and Oh what glory he should do y n these
walls fheie gentlemen you have the motive that has
ruiced Us IN building the house, and throwing opea
it, dotrs Ia you al the year round Whatever there
4. that can facilitate your Studies we viii provide
We entrtat you TO accept The provision We have
made In tie lat ten wars We have run career
II The ordinary 81 medical colleges, with tho
m ct mir, ut suecese We have sboun9qd in students
p.iity has flowed In uIon us thousand Of gra-
dustes pur,uirg their profession all the
try In The mdst q this pause; henceforth
done with All iiSslres u mmsteris whether have