Deformity: an essay / By William Hay.

  • William Hay
Date:
1754
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Credit: Deformity: an essay / By William Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * which feldom fails of the Effedt, and not c as a Sign, which is more deceivable ; c for as there is an Election in Man c touching the Frame of his Mind, the £ Stars of natural Inclination are fome- £ times eclipfed by the Sun of Difcipline c and Virtue.’ He begins with faying, that c deformed € Perfons are commonly even with Nature; c for as Nature hath done ill by them, £ fo do they by Nature, being for the 1 mold part (as the Scripture faith) void c of natural AffeBioni I can neither find out this Paffage in Scripture, nor the Rea- fon of it: nor can I give my Aflent or Negative to a Proportion, till I am well acquainted with the Terms of it. If by natural Affeftion is here meant univerfal Benevolence, and Deformity neceffarily implies a want of it, a deformed Perfon muft then be a complete Monfter. But however common the Cafe may be, my own