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convenient , these denominations . Convenient—for what ? To prompt men who should and do love as brethren to worship as disciples of two different teachers , the servants of two different
masters ? To multipl y almost in infinitum compartments in a fold where Bot the shadow of such an unseemly disfigurement should be seen ? Yes ; for such purposes and others nearly allied to them in worse than worth-¦
lessness , they are convenient indeed . Compendious , too , forsooth ! Are they now more compendious than that by which the disciples were first and only distinguished at Antioch ? Then they draw the line of demarcation so intelligibly , so palpably between men who construe a common
record differently . Nay , but what proficient in the Philadelphic School of Christ does not wish this line of demarcation were always as evanescent , as invisible , as possible ? What two pious and amiable men , who had ever e&te together at Jesus' feet , but would
be ; fain to shut their eyes as they diverged afterward from each other—to approximate subsequently as closely as with a safe conscience they mightto meet in the wilderness of error upon the same common oasis of truth again ? " Is it I that am the wanderer /* will
not both , looking , fondly looking in each other ' s face , often alternately ex-Claim > O let us once more shake hands , and travel over the ground together . Haply , I have kept my eye too exclusively fixed upon one great paramount object , to the neglect of
some subordmate but most important one , whispers our Orestes ; haply mine has been too distracted or prismatic meekly replies our Pylades . Devious as this path has seemed to you , my friend , are not these the vestiges of an apostle ^ foot that I now point to in
it ? modestly surmises the one : and have not you been unwittingly following a phantom of your own imagination , blending too intimately the dayspring from on high , with its
sempiternal and single source ? affectionately rejoins the other . Ah ! ere we close thus sweet counsel together , we shall walk , I see , in one house of God , not as friends only , but as twin children of a common Parent—both now with rapture cry out , we are anon about to taeet where we ahftll tiwer , never , part
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again . Is this the language , the spirit , of Unitarianism ?—Is not this the lauguage , the spirit , of Christianity ?—But 1 am writing for a Magazine , not for a bulky tome . Ew uno disc * plura . CLERI CUS .
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2 g 4 Sir Gilbert Blnne on Vaccination . X
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Sir Gilbert Blane on Vaccination . f ^ HE following important and inte-JL resting article is extracted from a paper read by Sir Gilbert Blane , Bart ., to the Medico-Chirurgical Sol ciety , Nov . 10 , 1819 , and inserted in the Tenth Volume of their
Transactions , just published : — Sir Gilbert begins by stating it to be " 21 years since vaccination was promulgated in the country by Dr . Jenner , and 15 years since it began to produce a sensible effect in diminishing the mortality from small-pox . Though
no discovery in nature nor in meditine has been more important to the interests of humanity , nor any which ever so rapidly and universally has won the assent and practical adoption of man . kind , yet he justly conceives it to be one of the reproaches of the country that it has not availed itself so much
of it as of any other of its benefits . " The small-pox" ( he says ) " is of all maladies that which , during the last thousand years , has destroyed the largest portion of the human species ,
and been productive of the largest share of human misery . There is , perhaps , no disease over which medical art has less power , and this power , such as it is , has consisted more in
abolishing pernicious practices , than in ascertaining any positive methods of controlling its fatality , unless we except the inoculation of it with its own virus . But , though the beneficial effect of this on those on whom it is actually
practised is undeniable , it has no ten * dency like vaccination to extirpate the disease ; and from the impossibility of rendering it universal , it has actually been found to add to the general mortality of small-pox , by opening a new source of diffusion to its virus .
In order to bring this to the test of calculation , Sir Gilbert selects from the bills of mortality four periods , each of 16 years , for the purpose ot exhibiting the mortality of small-pox in ea < ch of these series in regard to each otter , of which the following » summary : — -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/28/
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