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boasted , and which their behaviour contradicts ; bat if your affections have been engaged ; if your views
have been comprehensive and en * Lirged ; if your faith have been lively and active * which they will be in proportion to the exigencies of the moment ; if you have accustomed yourselves to serious and devout prayer ,
you will rise from ; the exercise with calm and tranquil minds , without any undue bias , without any inordinate wish or desire , without any selfish or unbecoming feeling , prepared to judge of the alternative which lies before
you , to choose that which appears to be most extensively connected with your duty , and to leave the issue in the hands of that Being , * who doeth all things well , * and not less prepared to acquiesce in his appointments *
whether they accord with your wishes or not . Thus acknowledging the Divine agency * you will , be careful to act upon the best principles and motives , to determine with the g reatest caution
and judgment ; you will endeavour to anticipate every possible consequence of your decision , and thus you will be preserved from those errors and obliquities into which they are liable to fall who know not GoiL who do not
seek , and who do not seem to value his direction and blessing . " J . W .
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the last winter , a controversy was afloat amongst the medical professors and students at St . Bartholomew Hospital . The subject in dispute was one of considerable importance , refering to nothing less than the origin of the vital principle in man , or the iinipediate cause of the phenomena of life . Upon this difficult question , the
lecturers maintained what they consi dered opposite theories , and they condescended to back their arguments by language and arts that are disgraceful to the professors of a liberal science . The pupils of each lecturer became enlisted under the banners of
their master , and the controversy assumed an acrimonious appearance that savoured much of the odium iheologicum , which unfortunately is not confined to doctors in divinity . Although the dispute is now terminated , and that in a way not very honourable
to the parties , yet the effect likely to be produced upon the minds of the young students may be easily calculated ; for , not only has a stop been put to inquiry , but religion has been brought in to inflame the passions , and confirm the prejudices of another
generation . The lecturers having made the public a party to their disputes by the publication of their lectures , there can be no indelicacy in repeating their names , or animadverting on their productions . With the nature of the
controversy your readers may make themselves acquainted , by consulting the Physiological Lectures delivered at Bartholomew Hospital by Mr . Abernethy and Mr . Lawrence , two of the Burgeons to that institution . Upon the subject matter of it ^ all that will be necessary to be observed here is ,
that the theory of life contended for with so much asperity by Mr . Abernethy , is , that it is a principle distinct from , and super-added to organization , being the same ae was maintained by the late eminent Mr . John Hunter . What this principle is , he does not inform us , but intimates that
it is « ith-er electricity , or something analogous to it . He is more silent still a « to the period or stage of orga-Rizathoti when he supposes this principle to be communicated . Mr . Lawy ^ ncse rej ects thi s theory as fictitious , and following Cuvi * r , Biebat , and other French surgecm ^ *» ai n 4 aju 3 that
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York , September 15 , 1819 . THE biographer of the terte Mr . Cappe ' s Memoirs , begs leave to reply , in answer to the suggestion of E . F . [ p . 494 , 3 that it would give her
great pleasure to prepare a republicstiou in the mantier he suggests , and in a cheap form , if she should find upon inquiry , that theTract Societies would be disposed to promote the circulation .
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Sin r July 21 , 181 ® . AS your work is sometimes the vehicle of scientific intelligence , and many of your readers feel
interested in those events that have a tendency either to accelerate or impede the inarch of knowledge , perhaps the following communication , which hm a reference to whart I consider the
more unfortunate vicHv of the subject , may noli be unacceptable-You are prrobabW aware timte during
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Medical Dispute on the Origin of Vithlity . ( fog "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/35/
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