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Excerpt from Valedictory Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia: March 9th, 1870, at the Academy of Music
Let us dwell for a moment upon this point. There was a time, not long since, - for in the life of nations a hundred years count but as days - that the heart of men quaked with fear when dark clouds were rolling on the sky, and spake with thunder and flashed with light ning. There lived, also, at one time, in this city, a man who went out in the storm to ¿y his kites on wire thread, and thus discovered the identity of lightning with electricity, whereby he was enabled to invent the lightning rod, under the protecting power of which we now sit, quietly listening to the majestic peals from the clouds and watching their lightning leaps. It is but a short time since the sound of the fire-bell startled a whole community into the liveliest emotion, and now, since steam has become our potent servant, we scarcely look out of the window upon such an occasion. Gen tlemen, knowledge is power!
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