A biographical account of the late Dr. Henry / [William Charles Henry].

  • Charles Henry
Date:
1837
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Credit: A biographical account of the late Dr. Henry / [William Charles Henry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trines. In his latter years, he seems himself to have strongly felt, in the perception of growing infirmities, that his season of active research was gone by, and to have looked around for some worthy object, not demanding personal exertions, to occupy what remained to him of life and of mental strength. His thoughts had dwelt for some time on two scientific projects, for both of which he had made considerable preparations. One of these designs, which had floated longest before his mind, and which he was most inclined to realize, was a work that should assemble the beneficent provisions in the Chemical Economy of Nature, which estab- lish the existence and attributes of an All-wise Governor of the Material Universe. He has thus expressed, in a letter addressed many years ago to the writer, his conceptions of the scope and dignity of such an undertaking. “It has always appeared to me a defect in physico-theological works, that too frequent appeals are made to the reason, in proof of divine wisdom, and that their efficacy is weakened instead of being con- firmed by needless iteration. It is enough if a writer, on a subject full of these proofs, presents them first apart from each other, and then in combination, in clear, plain and unaffected lan- guage, to the understanding of the reader, and
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