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The judicial qualities requisite to the successful administration of justice,

enumerated,.321

There are various occasions in the life of a judge, of which he ought to availhimself to advance and strengthen the cause of good morals, .... 322The general unsullied purity of the English and American Bench, noticed, 322

CHAPTER II. The Moral Influence and Tendency of the Studyand Practice of Medicine and Surgery, with the Duties of aPhysician to his Patients, to the Families into which he is ad-mitted, to other Physicians, and to Society in general.

Result of Dr. Rush's inquiry into the lives of physicians,.323

Defects imputed to physicians, and ascribed to the study and practice of

medicine, .324

The inquiry, whether the study and practice of medicine tend to originate

and nourish infidel feelings and sentiments, answered,.325

Sir Henry Halford quoted respecting the duty of a physician to make hispatient acquainted with the probable issue of a malady manifesting mor-tal symptoms,.327

The confidential nature of the relation, in which the physician stands to hispatient, and to the families into which he is admitted, illustrated, . . . 328

Circumstances in the medical profession which render competition amongphysicians more bitter, than among the members of the other professions,

adverted to,.329

The complaints made against physicians, enumerated,.329

The temperance reformation much indebted to physicians,.330

CHAPTER III. Moral Influence of the Clergy on Society, in-cluding an Estimate of the Clerical Character.

The morals of the clergy are the natural exemplification of the religion

which they preach,.331

“ By their fruits we are to know” all men, and, when subjected to this rea-sonable test, the Christian clergy, as a body of men, will not be-found

wanting,.331

But more particularly, — Christianity was planted and built up chiefly bythe labors, dangers, sufferings, and privations of the clergy, in every

country which now enjoys its blessings,.332

The clergy have taken the lead in establishing institutions of learning, andother institutions which have meliorated the condition of mankind, . .335

The general influence of the parochial clergy on manners, morals, andwhatever else is ranked under the comprehensive term civilization , has

been most effective and salutary, .337

This position confirmed by a striking quotation from Dr. Arnold, and by the

testimony of the “ Edinburgh Review,” .337

Two defects generally imputed to the clergy, examined and answered, . . 339

CHAPTER IV. Moral Influence and Duties of Men of Letters.

Men of letters form a class considerable in point of numbers, and still moreso in respect to the influence which they exercise on society, .... 340

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