Remarks on the Brunonian system ... / [James Jackson].

  • James Jackson
Date:
1809
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    ‘ral but a forced state.’? What we are to call natu- ral, if not life, it must puzzle every philosopher inferior to Brown to determine. — It is impossible that any man could have written this sentence, who used the words natural, and life, according to their common acceptation. I suautz endeavour to meet this difficulty, re- specting the use of words, in the best manner in my power; and shall rather submit to tedious periphrasis, than employ terms whose limits are loose and undefined. In Beddoes’ edition of Brown’s Elements of Medicine, we find his most general propositions reduced under eight heads. In these remarks I shall refer to those propositions; and, while I de- rive some advantages from the labours. of Dr. Beddoes, the reader is assured of an analysis more ably and faithfully performed than I could fur- nish. | Inrropuctory to those propositions, Dr. Beddoes has these remarks: “ The cause of gra- vitation has been left unexplored by all prudent philosophers ; and Brown, avoiding all useless disquisitions concerning the cause of vitality, con- fines himself to the phenomena which that great moving eats in nature may ue observed to produce.” In all this Brown certainly acted wisely, and like a true philosopher, if so indeed he did act. No one can engage with advantage in physiolo- gical and pathological investigations, who does
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