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    of chemistry makes himself at ail times intelligible . Prefixed to the work is u a Dissertation on the importance of an early cultivation of the understanding , arid on the advantages of inspiring youth with a taste for chemical 'knowledge , " the value

    of which to the superintendents of our various manufactories is pointed out at some length , and with considerable ability : but the great excellence of the Catechism is , in our opinion , its making science auxiliary to religion , and its leading the minds of youth Ci from nature up to nature ' s God . ' This is the great charm of Dr . Priestley ' s philosophical writings . The merely scientific man may think that some of Mr . Parkes ' s moral and religious reflections might have been spared ; but it shoald be remembered that the work * rs compiled for the

    young , in whose minds iris of the first importance to form early religious associations . Should , therefore , the professional che « mist censure the author for xlepartittg from his proving , the parent and-the teacher will , for this very reason , thank him ; his book being , on this as 'well as on other accounts , the most valuable elementary work on chemical scu ence which they can put into the hands of their pupils and children . . We are much pleased with the following remarks on the moral advantages of a chemical education : —

    * It is the necessary consequence of an attention to this science , that it gives the habit of investigation , and lays the foundation of an ardent and inquiring " mind . If % . youth has been taught to receive nothing as true , but what is the result of experiment , he will be in littire danger of ever bang led away by {)* e VOL , II-

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    insidious arts of sophistry , or of having 1 his mind bewildered by fanaticism 6 r superstition . The knowledge of facets is what he has been taught to esteem ; and no reasoning , however specious , will ever induce him to receive as true what appears incongruous / or cannot be recommended by demonstration or analogy . "

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    Art . IT . —Dialogues , Letter& , a ? id JZssai / s , on Various Subjects . By A . Fuller . 12 xno . 3 s . 6 d , pp . 306 . Burditt . 1806 , Our readers will be sufficiently instructed in the nature of this work whei ) they learn that thh greater part of it consists of republished pieces from the Evan - gelical and other kindred magazines , and that the original pieces differ , in nothing from the selections . The author is a great

    ^ adeptin orthodox divinity , a Calvinistic casuist . Conscious of his theologica ^ dcxtqrity , he delights in handling what our brethren tfoe Calviriists call difficult questions ; and where he chooses not to solve , though here he displays considerable ingenuity , he , somehow or other , contrives to elude them . He is appealed to as aa oracle by his party ; and his decisions contain quite sufficient of oracular dogmatism .

    " The writer / ' says Mr . Fuller of himself , p . 156 , * was some time since in a company where mention was made of one who believed in the final salvation of all men , and perhaps of alt devils likewise . ¦« He is a gentleman / said one , of liberal principle *? Such principles may doubtless be denominated liberal , that is , free and enlarged , in one sense : they are free from the restraints of Scripture , and enlarged as a net which , contains a great multitude of fishes , good and bad ; but whether this ought to recommend them , is another question . What would be thought of one who should visit the felons of Newgate , and persuade them that such wa » the good-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/33/