Page:An address delivered to the graduates admitted at the Convocation of the Senate of the University of Madras, held on Monday, April 5, 1878 (IA b22350172).pdf/27

 possible, more splendid, the result to your country more important. If any among you take up the paths I have indicated, Medicine or Agriculture, your foes will be pestilence and famine, and they slay myriads compared to the puny efforts of man’s bloodiest wars. These be foemen worthy of your steel, and if there shall arise amongst you some one who, by his genius and acquirements, shall shew his countrymen how to avoid, or amply mitigate these evils, he will, even should he escape decoration, be amply honored in the plaudits of a grateful posterity.