A brief expostulation with Professor Buckland on the unscriptural and illogical nature of his theory of death / by Francis Eagle.
- Eagle, Francis
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A brief expostulation with Professor Buckland on the unscriptural and illogical nature of his theory of death / by Francis Eagle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Again : if we compare the modern Egyptian with the ancient Egyptian mummies, &c.; and further, the Euro- pean, Asiatic, and Egyptian Mahomedan loith each other, it will clearly appear, that notwithstanding identity of religion, diet, &c., the European has his distinct phy- sical organization, the Asiatic, his distinct physical organ- ization, and the Egyptian, his distinct physical organ- ization ; the latter closely approximating the ancient Egyptian and modern Copt. And hence it will be difficult to avoid the conclusion, that national greatness is relativef and not absolute, up to a certain point, defined only by the extent of the universe; that it I'eposes in human comparative anatomy, the cause of which is the temperature of the seasons. If we require another familiar illustration of this philosophy, it is only necessary to read any history of the United States of America, or of the changes which have already taken place in the colony of New South Wales, as manifested in the com- parative philosophy of its inhabitants when compared with the inhabitants of Gi-eat Britain. ft thus appears that the same causes which produce a particular condition of the animal kingdom also deter- mine a particular aptitude or condition of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Hence every zone, nation, and territory has that par- ticular animal] vegetable, and mineral kingdom which is best for its physical wants. The torrid zone has its comparative world, its animal, vesetable, mineral, and morbid kingdoms. The tern- perate and frigid, theirs also. The tropical diet is incompatible with the temperate zones; the temperate with the frigid. So also of animals, vegetables, diseases, and remedies. These truths constitute a part of comparative philo-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22273207_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
