Six lectures on materia medica and its relations to the animal economy / by John Spurgin.

  • John Spurgin
Date:
1853
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Credit: Six lectures on materia medica and its relations to the animal economy / by John Spurgin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    laws of the whole material world are throughout evidently subordinate. In' every department of science which has attracted more than an ordinary share of inves- tigation, or attained any degree of perfection, we observe a tendency to establish some general principle, or to seek for some universal law to which all its phenomena may be referred. This tendency has naturally given rise to a multitude of mere theories and hypotheses; and though it may be said to find no direct sanction in the present age of experimental and practical philosophy, it will, nevertheless, be found to influence the mind of the experimentalist now as much as at any former period. The very nature of the human mind and of all its opera- tions appears indeed to involve this tendency. Consistently, therefore, with this position, it would seem to be impossible for a system of philosophy to exist, or for a department of science to be developed, as the result of mental labour, which did not, indeed, owe its entire origin and value to this source. System is professedly the object at which the man of science aims; all the faculties of his nature unite together in .the effort to realize
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