Vital dynamics : the Hunterian oration before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, 14th February 1840 / by Joseph Henry Green.

  • Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Vital dynamics : the Hunterian oration before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, 14th February 1840 / by Joseph Henry Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the laws of the material universe as the Ideas in nature. Quod in natura naturata lex, in natura naturante idea dicitur”* And it is in accordance with this truth that I have endea- vored to show in the following Address, that, as all within the sphere of our sensible expe- rience bears the character of the transient and fluxive, it is only by the aid of the Reason, TO d\{]6ivov, that we are enabled to look beyond and deeper, to discover the laws which give permanence and regularity, to discern the eternal Ideas, which are the regulating types and standards of a nature ever tending to lapse into the imperfect and arbitrary, and to raise ourselves to the contemplation of the true causes, the divine acts themselves, which, in our experience of the sensible world, are hidden under the veil of the unreal and perish- ing representatives of the realities, from which they are derived. * Church and State, p. 12. Edited by H. N. Coleridge, 1839. Compare The Statesman’s Manual, Appendix E. And the following comment on the Platonic doctrine, though not unobjectionable in its phraseology, may be acceptable to the reader, as offering a different kind of illustration: “ La theorie Platonicienne est Vunite de Vexistence univer- selle, par consequent Vharmonic de Vesprit httmain et de la nature, des conceptions de Vun et du plan de Vautre, et le double caractere de I'idee, prise au sens de Platon, conune conception generale dans le sujet pensant, et comme loi ou forme generale dans I'objet externe.” V. Cousin Metaphy- sique d’Aristote, p. 49.