A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].

  • Albert Isaiah Coffin
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dependencies, and a regular invariable connection between cause and effect, existing inherently in the nature and fitness of things, but these relations, con- _ nections, and dependencies have never been perfectly understood, and therefore never fully developed by the boldest researches of science and time. _ We live in an enlightened era; the intelligence of the present age has accomplished more than the wis- dom of all past generations. Yet, how often has the lamp of native genius been extinguished, or unright- eously concealed, by a combination of learned, but malevolent persecutors, who, like the sons of Jacob, would sell their brother to the Ishmaelite merchants, if they only imagined that in him they had found a competitor. - seminaries of learning have been extensively estab- lished, and liberally and zealously patronized ; literary combinations have risen up; a learned aristocracy, intent on enslaving the world, has laid its iron edict on all progression, save such as is calculated to extend its authority or enhance its fame. ‘This monopolizing spirit exists more or less in all civilized countries, and fame and honour, as emblems of greatness, are reserved ‘for the titled and privileged few. From the root of this baneful Upas, that has for ages and generations poisoned the cup of human happiness, springs the stale delusion that a man cannot have any competent knowledge of law, physic, or divinity, unless
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