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Dissections Daily Convince Us Of Our Ignorance Of The Seats Of Diseases, And Cause Us To Blush At Our Prescriptions. How Often Are We Disappointed In Our Expectation From The Most Certain And Powerful Of Our Remedies, By The Negligence Or Obstinacy Of Our Patients! What Mischief Have We Done Under The Belief Of False Facts And False Theories! We Have Assisted In Multiplying Diseases. We Have Done More — We Have Increased Their Mortality.

We Have Not Only Multiplied Diseases, But We Have Made Them More Fatal.

I Grant This Mode Of Secluding Boys From The Intercourse Of Private Families Has A Tendency To Make Them Scholars, But Our Business Is To Make Them Men, Citizens, And Christians. The Vices Of Young People Are Generally Learned From Each Other. The Vices Of Adults Seldom Infect Them. By Separating Them From Each Other, Therefore, In Their Hours Of Relaxation From Study, We Secure Their Morals From A Principal Source Of Corruption, While We Improve Their Manners By Subjecting Them To Those Restraints Which The Difference Of Age And Sex Naturally Produce In Private Families.

Let Our Pupil Be Taught That He Does Not Belong To Himself, But That He Is Public Property. Let Him Be Taught To Love His Family, But Let Him Be Taught At The Same Time That He Must Forsake And Even Forget Them When The Welfare Of His Country Requires It.

If Moral Precepts Alone Could Have Reformed Mankind, The Mission Of The Son Of God Into All The World Would Have Been Unnecessary. The Perfect Morality Of The Gospel Rests Upon The Doctrine Which, Though Often Controverted Has Never Been Refuted: I Mean The Vicarious Life And Death Of The Son Of God.