The life of John Hunter / By Jessé Foot.

  • Jesse Foot
Date:
1794
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Credit: The life of John Hunter / By Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proportion, or carrying the grand career of genius into practice: the best and brightest examples of men should-alone be the models for imitation ; but yet it will be ever found necessary, for the purpose of inculcating their true value, to form critical comparisons with characters that have be- trayed a contrary inclination. The progressive improvement of science can- ’ hot be more purely marked, nor the particular faculty of him who is supposed to have been of importance in its cause, cannot be better ascer- tained, than at the moment when his powers are ceasing to aét, and his personal influence is'with- drawing. ‘This is the immediate point of time whichas most favourable for shewing, what has been done on the same given subject by others; and, what was done distinctly by him ; what was _known before, and in his own time to others, and . what was made known distinétly by him. The historian is-better prepared for doing an aét. of justice, for demonstrating truth. to the public eye, and must necessarily expose himself to detection by living witnesses, if he aim to pervert either, He cannot plead ignorance from want of information; he cannot say, that his do- cuments have been carried down the rolling cur- , . Tent
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