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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sunday school Celebration. (search)
ith scorn, deprived of his practice, and driven into exile, because he discovered and taught the circulation of the blood! Dr. Jenner was violently denounced and threatened with disgrace because he advocated vaccination for small-pox! Columbus, Fulton, Fitch, all suffered by the opposition to their several discoveries and reforms. Fulton was laughed at and neglected by the "respectable" and "intelligent" of his day, and they let him die in extreme indigence. Examples of folly, prejudice, hatand reforms. Fulton was laughed at and neglected by the "respectable" and "intelligent" of his day, and they let him die in extreme indigence. Examples of folly, prejudice, hatred, condemnation, and crucifixion of pioneers in anything absolutely new need not be multiplied. From an outward stand-point, this opposition seems "a cross too heavy to be borne-- "But truth shall conquer at the last, For round and round we run, And ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done."