A sketch: or, short description of [Dr.] Graham's medical apparatus, &c. Erected about the beginning of the year 1780, [n his house], on the Royal [Terrace], Adelphi, London / [Anon].

James Graham

Date:: 1780

Credit: A sketch: or, short description of [Dr.] Graham's medical apparatus, &c. Erected about the beginning of the year 1780, [n his house], on the Royal [Terrace], Adelphi, London / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$pleafure in the univerfe, and of fpringing up at the re- turn of the genial feafon, into verdant leaves,'beautiful flo\vers, or delicious fruits ! the vital principle the prolific germ—having degenerated and perifhed in its firft: ftage of exiftence.—-Who knows, then, but that thofc human fouls, which through certain principles or imper- fedhons in their original formation or conftitution, efpe- cially when fuffered hill farther to four and degenerate for want of the proper and neceffary difcipline and cultivation m this world,—-who knows, I fay, but that fuch fouls as do not m this life arrive at—or attain to a certain size, or point, OR degree of goodness, intelligence, fweetnefs, ??dndjTfl£n’ fliall _ wither, perifli, and drop off like a bJalted bloflom, or untimely fruit,—for ever and ever.—And to purfue the allegory,—as there are millions of verdant- beauteous—prolific, and even luxuriant plants, &c. which rlourilh in wild, uncultivated, and feemingly barren foils— In hke manner there are millions of bright and brilliant fouls, filled, and overflowing with goodnefs, love, and uni- verfal benevolence,—and highly illuminated with celeftial with divine light ! among nations called favage*, in a ftate of nature—unfliackled by fyftems—unperverted by art. But who, as I faid before in another place, fliall amply ob- tain under the aconomy and emanations of glory in future hates ox exiftence, whatever hath been with-held from their terreftnal degrees of perfection. To conclude, is it not pro- bab e from thefe confiderations—is it not more honourable to the^upreme Being! to fuppofe-that after this firh hate ° ^rTT°Tci Cip ineVxl0uls 0f a dwarfi{h §rowth thofe of a x\lIJLISH or monhrous nature,—and thofe who have not attained to A CERTAIN SIZE, or to a certain point or degree of goodness, intelligence, sweetness, and elevation ! fliall neither vegetate nor flourifli when this hufk—this outward covering—this vile—mortal—perifhable body drops oft; (this is what I underftand by the refur- recShon)—nor that they fliall be fent into eternal torment- but THA r (perhaps after a certain full and ftriking view of tlie honor and deformity of fin, and of the beauty of virtue and benevolence) they fliall either be removed and received into happmefs and glory or, UTTERLY EXTINJ GUISHED, AND ANNIHILATED FOR EVER. LXTlN\ , * H<!re 1 ara remInded of a ftriking inftajice of this native benevolence to men, and piety towards the » unknown” Tr1 J pr.eme .God ! in a y°nnS untutored Ruffian, whom I had the happmefs to meet with fome years ago, when on my travels through the northern parts of Europe. I was$