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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Medical College of the State of So. Ca., November 12th, 1838
Once more, gentlemen! I am permitted to enjoy the gratification of meeting you within these walls, and of welcoming you to the re-commencement of our mutual labors. With sincere pleasure I recognize among you many familiar faces, and gladly anticipate the day when even those countenances, now seen for the first time, will wear for me the delightful expres sion of esteem and friendship. I resume with feelings of profound and solemn awe, the duties of my highly responsible station. It appals me to re?ect, that unless I fail most egregiously in my efforts to gain your con fidence and in?uence your opinions, Iam about to be engaged in spreading abroad the knowledge of valuable truth on the one hand, or on the other, in dis seminating error and delusion. Yet, amidst these anxieties, I am supported by a conscientious resolution to shrink from no toil however arduous, which may be necessary to fit me for my task; to inquire honestly for truth; to abandon error, as soon as I discover it; and to confess ignorance whenever I have failed to attain knowledge.
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