A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society.

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1789
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Credit: A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I [ 24 ] “ Paul had precifely the fame ideas of the hu~ u man foul, with Hejiod, Homer, Pythago- tc ras9 CicerOy and other worthies of the Pa- “ gan ages.* ” * * * % But I crave your Lordfhip’s pardon for quit¬ ting you fo long, and fhall conclude this part of the fubjedl with two obfervations. i. If (as your Lordfhip affirms) it be the ex¬ plicit affertion of Mofes that the union of the immaterial foul with the body is the true principle of vitality in the human fpecies ; and if I be not miftaken in my conclufion that on this fuppolition brute animals owe their vitality to the fame principle, we fhall encounter with another true principle pf vitality delivered in the writings of Mofes in language no lefs explicit than that on wdiich your Lordfhip’s argument Is founded. This other principle is nothing more or lefs than the Bloodf—Gen. ix. 4* But flejh * Hiftor„ View of the ContrGverJy, 8cc. Prefat. Difc, p. lxiv» &feq. + “ Empedocles animuni efle cenfet cordi fuffufum fangui- nem.,, [Cicer, Tufc, Di/put. i. 9.] Eadem fuiffevidetur se Hebrxorum