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Universities will arise; a much greater latitude and importance will be attached to the system of private lecturers; and, while individuals can gain from them every essential of their profession, they will give themselves little trouble about what may then be termed the musty pedantry of scholastic titles; the signatures of lecturers of ability will, in point of fact, be as valid a passport to respect and practice, as the most massive signet of the College; and the sentence of the public is, after all, that of the highest tribunal.
The enactment of these rules, moreover, will imply an imputation on all the former, and all the existing non-conformist Professors, who, either not having sense to appreciate, or not willing to employ, this panacea,—this recipe for compounding a physician, left its merit to be unfolded and taken advantage of by the sapient reformers of the present day. They, good worthy simpletons! (forgive me, oh Patres Conscripti!) the Blacks, the Monros, the Cullens, the Gregories, and the host of other Professors, whom we doubtless in our folly believe to have enlarged so much the boundaries of our knowledge, and exalted their school to the high rank which it has so long occupied, were only demonstrating, it now appears, their ignorance and illiberality, when they annually and authoritatively maintained, that a candidate found to be duly acquainted with anatomy, chemistry, physiology, materia
