Social science and actual life : an historical narrative of a conflict between private interests and public duty, during the Social Science Conference, addressed to Lord Brougham / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Social science and actual life : an historical narrative of a conflict between private interests and public duty, during the Social Science Conference, addressed to Lord Brougham / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    favor they presented a lengthy and most elaborate report, were influenced by the belief that he had unquestion- able right to the first place ; and since the Council had published to the world its previous acts, and by the advertisement in this case, that on merit would the decision turn, it is bound to fulfil the agreement with the candidate who has fulfilled all the conditions, by implementing its own law according to its own hitherto undeviating interpretation in practice. That the excep- tional course recently pursued is opposed to the meaning of the statute is obvious; that its effect is to deal a heavy blow to a great principle, cannot be denied ; that that principle fully enjoys the popular favor is equally certain ; and that no person or corporate body can, with impunity in these days, do violence to popular opinion, is a proposition commanding the most unques- tionable assent. It is one of the finest elements in the constitution of the Queen's College in Liberal Birmingham, that from the time of its foundation the nobility and landed gentlemen of the Midland Counties, have taken a most active part in promoting its welfare ; to this great class belongs the third member of the equity court, to whom we have supposed the facts of the case to have been stated. He thus conveys expression of his opinion :—No one has perhaps been more happy than the accomplished Fordyce, in laying down the rule of honor by which the conduct of a gentleman should always be regulated—'tis hut one—comprehensive, obvious, unmistakeable ; it alone can be followed with