The motives to industry in the study of medicine : an address delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Thursday, October 1, 1846 / by James Paget.

  • James Paget
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1846
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Credit: The motives to industry in the study of medicine : an address delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Thursday, October 1, 1846 / by James Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    special business ami our charge—to be daily seeking out and bolding converse with all that is most beautiful and excellent in the works of God I do not mean that we should be always on the look out for evidences, as they are called, of this or that admitted truth, and then, by the dry, unfruitful path of natural theology, should try to attain to an opinion, hardly to be called belief, of that which, on far better evidence, we may be sure of. This cannot be called a privilege to a Christian man: but it is a privilege, a lofty one, to be peculiarly instructed in the whole nature of the last and most glorious of the Creator’s works ; and then, by the combined lights of revelation and of science, mingled, like complemental colours, in a purer and more bright illumination, to be able to discern in our own bodies the expressions of His still guiding and up- holding power and goodness; to study our relation to all other creatures, and to learn how truly we are, by the constitution of our frames, not less than by our mental force, adapted for dominion over all; to discern, as far as may be, the nature and operations of our immaterial part; and to trace the workings of those laws of dis- ease and death by which so much of the moral govern- ment of the world is exercised. All these, and many more like these, we claim as our allotted and peculiar rights; and, if we are but true to ourselves in using them; if we never rest content with second causes, nor with fools’ boldness strive, in our own strength, to find ' Archdeacon Hare, “ Tiie Victory of Faitli,” A'C., p. 49. Cambridge, 1810.