Valedictory address delivered at the second annual commencement of the Homoeopathic Medical College of New-York / by I.M. Ward.

  • Ward, Isaac M. (Isaac Moreau), 1806-1895.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Valedictory address delivered at the second annual commencement of the Homoeopathic Medical College of New-York / by I.M. Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it, will make the history of the age on which you are entering. In these contrasted periods, learn your exalted privi- leges. The earth itself on which these changes have been wrought is more majestic, if age can add to dig- nity, and more extended, if the extension of the boun- daries of science can add to greatness. The world regarded then as but a few thousand years old, now demonstrated to be as many millions, is itself in the eye of man, more ancient as well as more grand. In speaking thus, we simply accept the accredited fact, science has clearly taught us, that the Bible record of creation was the history of man, and not the history of the world. That this earth existed in all its material constitution and force, with all the constituent elemen- tary material of our bodies, even the phosphates so re- quisite for the formation of bone, ages before man was made ; that the very coal and oil contributing so much to the necessities of man was being made and deposited in vast store-houses, in anticipation of his inhabiting the world, and that during this age one of these storehouses has been discovered and unlocked to him. And if our conception of things, have an exaltation proportionate to their changed condition, the world to you to-day, pre- sents a field more gloriously inviting than to any of preceding ages. The enlargement of the boundaries of science, and the inventions in the arts, in their controlling influence