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ff Having on previous occasion shown the
futili,y OF the sanction Of mere antiquity as an
argument to uphold any subject, especially, Of
science or philosophy, and having illustrated
my position by common place examples, |
more than hinted that such blind reverence
for the old must necessarily preclude as from
examining the new, and consequently arrest
all improvement.
II Sir Humphrey Davy says, nothing has so
much checked The progress OF philosophy as
the confidence Of teachers in delivering dog
mas,as truth, which it would be presumptuous
TO question. Ii was this spirit which for more
than ten, centuries, made the crude physics of
Aristotle the natural philosophy Of the whole
of Europe. II was This spirit, which produced
the imprisonment OF the elder Bacon, and the
recantation OF Galileo.'


~, And again: 80 say that any class Of opinions
shall not be impugned-that their truth shall
not be called in Question, 10 al once to declare
that these opinions are niallible, and that their
authors cannot err. What can be more eyre
Tgiously absurd and presump,aous2 IT is fix
ing bounds TO human knowledge, and saying
men cannot learn by experence--that they
can never be wiser in future than they are TO
day. &c. .N sa di I. -


il is my happiness to agree with Sir Hum
phrey Davy, however much may regret. that
j dissent from the opinions Of x. Y. eel


s The truth seems 10 be simply this, that the
ancien,s endeavored to elevate physic TO the
dignity Of a science, but failed. The moderns,
with more success, have endeavored 10 reduce
tito the level of q trade sNH


The schools Of Egypt and Arabia, the en-
inent men of Greece and Rome, the great an
somical teachers and philosophers Of the mid
die ages knew not the circulation Of the blood.
How wild were their theories, how fanciful
their hypotheses, may be Cleaned from the
act ctiha,they called certain blood vessels arteries
because they. for ages, were thought 70 contain
nothing but arr =,
(. How. let me ssk, can amy sans and candid
person. with such iac,s before him, belisve 10
the infalD,bilary VI q system based upon the
dogmas OF antiquity Ee w