An address, delivered to the Medical Society : on Friday May 1. 1778 / By Caleb Parry.

  • Caleb Hillier Parry
Date:
1778
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Credit: An address, delivered to the Medical Society : on Friday May 1. 1778 / By Caleb Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    need no better proof to convince us of their utility. If they arife from the didates of reafon, from the remembrance of fame ex- perienced good, the conclufion is equally favourable. Yet, to thefe orders of beings, the advan¬ tages refulting from fociety muft be, com¬ paratively, fmall, and, probably, expend no farther than to the fecure enjoyment of the means by which they can gratify their hunger, and propagate their feverai fpecies. In Man, thefe are combined with plea- fures of a more exalted nature 5 and the ex- ercife of the fecial affedions, of gratitude, | ■ 't I of benevolence, of compaffion, of friend- fhip, of love, is pregnant with delights, Which he, alone, of the whole animal crea¬ tion, is comparatively, at leaf!:, permitted to enjoy. While thefe impeil us to labour all we can to promote the happinds of others, we I feel in ourfelves a Along defire to purfue thofe objeds which more immediately lead <
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