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than they have ever been known since the institution of the bills of mortality , the total number being only 421 . 4 € On the whole matter , I believe , I am speaking the language of every man of good principles and feelings , capable of reflecting seriously and considerately on the subject , when I say that , whenever he applies his mind to it , he finds some new and increasing cause of complacency and satisfaction . Viewed as a mere physical fact in the natural history of the animal kingdom , the virtue of the vaccine virus , in
resisting the action of the variolous , is , by its novelty and singularity , highly striking and interesting to every one whose taste leads him to take delight in contemplating and exploring the devious ways and varied forms of nature as curious exceptions to the uniformity and constancy of her laws .
But the importance of this vanishes to notlung when the unexampled benefits of it to mankind are fairly weighed—benefits . which could never have been dreamt of by the most san-r guine philanthropist , who , in contemplating it , finds himself lost in astonishment at a boon to mankind almost
beyond the grasp of his mind duly to appreciate . It will , in the eyes of future ages , be deemed an epocha in the destinies of the world , and one of the highest boasts of the country in which it took its rise , with a sense of
unrequitable obligation to the individual who first disclosed and promulgated the secret , by drawing it from the dark recesses of rural tradition , and rendering it available to the whole human race .
** Such are the sentiments which must fill every well-constituted mind , and it behoves the whole medical profession , which has already done itself so much honour by the zealous and disinterested encouragement afforded to it , to continue its efforts in
eradicating every remaining prej udiee against it . It becomes Englishmen , in particular , to foster it , not only as the native offspring of his country , of which he has reason to be proud , but to redeem the character of the nation
from ttv $ reproach of having of all others , whether savage or civilized , djwie the isast justice to thia noble discovery . There ia no oountyy which hm prised it lee « , nor availed ite * lf of
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it so little . Have we not ssen it adapted instantl y in Peru , in consequence of a flash or conviction from the light of evidence ; and have we not seen thia conviction fully justified by the immediate disappearance of small-pox from
that whole region \ To those nations who may feel an envy of' the glory attached to our country by this discovery , it must be no small consolation to perceive that a large proportion of
the English nation has hitherto been so besotted as not to know how to appreciate nor to avail itself of it , and that it has encountered more opposition among ourselves than in all the world besides ?"
Sir Gilbert Blane concludes this important paper with four tables , a summary of which is given above . ——fc *— -
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288 TAe Review ef Letters to Fox .
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The Review of Letters to Pox . THE Reviewer of the Four Letters to Mr . Fox ( pp . 109—111 ) is quite content to leave the arguments
of Hylas ( pp . 208—212 ) to the judgment of the readers of the Monthly Repository . But as that writer insinuates a charge which , if uncontradicted , might affect the credit of the Review department of this work , the Reviewer beg 3 leave to put down , without comment , a few passages from
Hobbes ; which he thinks will suffice to shew , that in saying that the Author of the Letters ( whose argument Hylas more fully developes ) ' * appears in the train of" the reasoners , ot whom the philosopher of Malmsbury may be reckoned the leader , he was not guilty of a calumny .
"It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity , but not injustice or injury in the proper signification . "—Leviathan , Pt . ii . Ch . xviii . p . 90 , Folio , Lond . 1651 .
" It belongeth therefore to him that hath the sovereign power to be judge , or constitute all judges , of opinions and doctrines , as a thing necessary to peace , thereby to prevent discord and civil war . " —Ibid . p . 91 .
" For it has been already shewn , that nothing the sovereign representative can do to a subject , on what' pretence soever , can properly be called injustice or injury ; because every subject is author of every act the sovereign doth . ; so that he never wanteth right ta any thing , otherwise thau aa he himself w the subject of God , and bound thereby to observe tha laws
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/32/
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