Page:The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the fourteenth day of February, 1821 (electronic resource) (IA b21483851).pdf/14

6 whose instruction and guidance our early steps were directed; of reviewing the progress, the importance, and the obligations of our profession; and of reviving and cultivating that knowledge of each other, which, by inspiring mutual respect and confidence, may keep up a frank and liberal intercourse between us, and make each esteem the talents, the attainments, and the just reputation of every individual, as combining to constitute a common fund of good, which extends its benefits to all.

Such were the generous. sentiments which induced the Executors of Mr. John Hunter to found this Annual Commemoration of their illustrious relative; and such, I trust, are the impressions, under — �