Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell.

Rennell, Thomas, 1786-1824.

Date:: 1819

Credit: Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$virtuous. HelVetius, Ibid. ii. 4, and 15. A system of Sceptical morality would fill a volume, and form a worthy companion to a florilegium of Jesuitical casuistry. Page 35. A proposition once proved to he trueJ] See a very useful little treatise on the Evidences of Religion, by the Kev. H. Walter, Professor of Mathematics at the East India College, p. 11. Page 39. We do not knov) enough to assign any ultimate cause.l Natural philosophers, by great attention to the course of nature, have discovered many of her laws, and have very happily applied them to account for many phae- nomena—but they have never discovered the efficient cause of any one phaenomenon, nor do those who have any distinct notions of the principles of the science, *' make any such pretence. E-EID on the Poioers of the Human Mind, vol. iii. p. 48. Page 40. The minds of some who have been exclusively accustomed to strict mathematical demonstration.] Vide Warburton. Introduction to Julian, p. xix. Page 47. By substituting in our specidations, nature for God.] Vide Credibility of Scripture Miracles vindicated by Professor ViNCE, p. 77. Page 64. In this volume Mr. Lawrence hasjjlainly told us.] As many of the observations which I have here made upon the Lectures of Mr. Lawrence, resemble those which appeared in the British Critic of July, 1817, it may beperhaps necessary to say that the author of botli is the same person. Page 75. Richerdnd would argue.] Richerand's Phy- . siology, translated by De Lys, p. 13. Page 77. The understanding is the principle which dig- nifies and adorns the life of man.] Juvenal in a very fine passage has drawn the same sort of distinction between the anima of the brute, and the animus of the man. Sepui at Iioc nos A j^rrgc mulonim, ntquc idco \eiici abile soli$