Confessions of the faculty : a collection of curious and important facts, deeply interesting to heads of families and invalids / by Socius.

Date:
1848
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    which they are not fitted to grapple. It is thus that the head settles down, and men de- generate, and become mere automata. It is thus that the existence of many abuses is prolonged, and it is thus that the tameness, sameness, and want of originality, which we have such great reason to deplore, is to be explained. There is a numerous class of persons in the Profession, playing the game of ‘follow the leader,’ —men, who look not at principles, but persons ; pinning their faith upon the sleeve of some individual who has managed to in- gratiate himself with them ; who denounce what he denounces, and praise what he praises; who look up to this one person be he a teacher or an Editor, as a kind of fugleman, by whom it must be determined whether they shall shout or remain silent, whether they shall clamour for this or that;—who investigate not any principles on which measures are founded, by their consequences on individuals and society, or the results to which they may tend, but who think it enough that the Master has said such measures must be adopted ;—thus making themselves tools in the very worst sense of that word. How preposterous would it be to attempt in this the nineteenth century, to perpetuate the
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