Chemistry and physiology in their religious bearings : a lecture / by Allen Dalzell.

  • Dalzell Allen, -1869.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Chemistry and physiology in their religious bearings : a lecture / by Allen Dalzell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    This Lecture, originally intended as the Introduction to a General Course of Chemistry, for the late Professor Fleming's Class, in the New College, Edinburgh, and which, sHghtly altered, has been on several occasions delivered in Public, is now published by the requfest of Friends. The writer does not claim any ideas herein set forth as new. His desire was, and is, to give prominence to some interesting subjects neither purely speculative nor metaphysical, but yet somewhat different from the ordin- ary matters on which the mind reflects. Faith, or the expression of a satisfied condition of mind, with regard to certain undemonstrable truths, is the psychical analogue of the term nutrition, employed as the chief functional exponent of somatic life. And whilst in common with not a few, the writer feels that on many of the attempts to reconcile Science and Eevel- ation, NuUos habitura triumphos may be fairly inscribed, he cannot forget that where we may not anticipate a solution of the difficulty, we have still this assurance to fall back upon, My grace is