The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-19
BASIS OF PROGRE SIS
President Kilgo's Eloquent Ad-
dress N Baltimore.
BEFORE YOUNG PHYSICIANS
Commencement of College Of
Physicians and Surgeons.
AN EXALTED REGARD OF MEN
Truth is GerminaI and so the Cen
turtles Have Been One Great
and Grand March of
Progress.

and-Grand March of
Progress.
North Carolinians were in demand
in Baltimore this week. DR.. W. II. Bob
bitt Of Raleigh, was one of the Prin-
cipal speakers at the banquet OF the
alumni of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at which he graduated
with distinction His subject was "The
True Physician" and it was received
with much applause. DR.. John c. XII
go, president of Trinity College, Dur
ham. N. c., delivered the annual COM
mencenent address TO the graduates,
ninetv-eight in number His subject
was San Exalted Regard of Man the
Basis of True Social Progress" 1t was
an able. eloquent and scholarly adj
dress. Among other things he said:
am glad to be with you on TINS occa-
sion. and / wish TO assure you OF my
appreciation of the honor you have be-
slowed upon me by your kind invita-
ton to address you at this hour. 1u
not unmindful lof the responsibilities
that go along with such opportunities.
| need not tell you that have had you
much in my thoughts since | consented
to be with you at this time. have
Thought of various subjects and have
found it no easy work TO select one
suited to the occasion. OF special sub
iects peculiar to your studies, readily
acknowledge my ignorance.
Ny personal taste has been satisfied
with very little knowledge of histology,
anatomy, pathology, therapeutics, sur
gerry and their kindred subjects. i
have always been quite willing to leave
these subjects to men whose intellect
ual sympathy bear them in that direc-
ton. Yet there have been great num-
Der of times in my life when | was very
dependent upon these men. Interde-
pendentlv is the cohesive force of the
moral world A physician friend once
twitted me on account of my calling
| replied that in every community
where a physician resided there was
need for preacher and an undertaken
He consented to the declaration and
showed himself fraternal. While it is
true that necessity has divided and
subdivided the world into special lines
of thought, yet life is larger than any
one of these lines. A man who shuts
himself into his own chosen speciality,
soon grows cold and heartless, AMI
loses his fitness to work anywhere.
The flower blossoms in your yard be-
cause it has affinity with all the uni-
verse, and it gives out a fragrance gath
cred from everywhere. The poet is
more than a yersifier. Into his soul have
come the deepest relations of the uni
verse. The star-flecked skies; the gor-
geous sunset; the music of the winds;
the nagnificence of the mountains; the
fragrance of the hills; the faiths of the
world: the multitude of soul move
ments. have all diyed themselves into
him. and he has sung them back to us
In divine art. The larger and the truer
self lies beyond the little worlds men
have made for themselves. He who
would make his special line of life
rich, must go beyond it's limits, and
from the whole realm of being gather
wealth and adornments. Besides this
personal necessity, there is q profound
er and holier necessity. Upon no truer
grounds can man justify his with
draWal from the great world Of strug-
gle. Phillips Brooks may have been n
preacher, but by a larger and diyiner
necessity he was a man. Boston may
have claimed him as preacher, and
Massachusetts claimed him as bishop,
but by an absoluter right, thesworli
claims him as a man. You have chosen
to practice medicine, but long ago you
should have chosen to practice the arts
of manhood. Economists have made
too much Of the law of Division Of
Labor There are some things thai
will divide; there are other things that
will not divide The worlds in danger
of too many foolish attempts at diyis-
ion. Life is becoming 100 segregated
I3and men are organizing little worlds
/ where they should organize one world
| Tricksters make capital Of this ten
dency, and jeopardize the sanctity Of
life and its problems. For these reasons
/ have chosen to address you on a sub
| iect that should find adaptation any
where and on any serious occasion
| The theme which / have chosen is IAN
| Exalted Regard Of Man, the Basis 81
True Social Progress"
The evolution of society has been a
vast process of slow growth, and with
all its high development, it is still 3
| process. We have ideals, not realities
| We must be satisfied that the world is
| progressive, and that it moves III the
| right direction, but we cannot yet claim
| perfection at any point. The pessimist
IS full of evil prophecies, and sees in
| every movement the dissolution OF hui
man successes and hopes. He magilifies
| infirmities into disease. For him his
tory has no inspiring lessons. Yet to q
man not cursed with this direful form
| of skepticism, to a man whose mind il
not the dumping ground Of human fail
ures, the world to-day is full Of sub
FINEST hopes. When we recount the
| depths Of ignorance and superstition
out of which the vast fabric Of modern
| civilization has been developed, no RI
| tional grounds can remain for our de
| spondency.
! know Of no sublimer picture than
| the separation of the founder of the
| Hebrew civilization from his kinsmen