Inaugural address delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 / by John Stuart Mill.

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1867
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Credit: Inaugural address delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 / by John Stuart Mill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    your like are the hope and resource of your country in the coming generation. All great things which that generation is destined to do, have to be done by some like you; several will assuredly be done by persons for whom society has done much less, to whom it' has given far less preparation, than those whom I am now ad-j dressing. I do not attempt to instigate you by the prospect of direct rewards, either earthly or heavenly; the less we think about being rewarded in either way, the better for us. But there is one reward which will not fail you, and which may be called disin- terested, because it is not a consequence, but is inherent in the very fact of deserving it; the deeper and more varied interest you will feel in life : which will give it tenfold its value, and a value- which will last to the end. All merely personal objects grow less valuable as we advance in life: this not only endures but increases. THE END.
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