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REVIEW. " Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame,"—Pope
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Art . I . —An Inquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr . Hunte ?*\ s Theory of Life , SfC By John Abernethy , F . R . S ., &c . 1814 . Art . II . —An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology &e . By William Lawrence , F . R . S . 1816 .
Art . III . — Physiological Lectures , SfC . By John Abernethy , F . R . S . 1817 . Art . IV . — Lectures on Physiology , Zoology and the Natural History of Man , delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons . By William Lawrence . F . R . S . 1819 .
Art . V . — Sketches on the Philoso ^ phy of Life . By Sir T . C . Morgan . 18 * 19 . Art . VI . —Remarks on Scepticism , being an Ansirer to the P ^ ieivs of Bichat , Sir T . C . Morgan , and Mr . Laterence . By the Rev . Thomas
Renuell , A . M ., Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge . 1819 . Art . VII . — Cursory Observations upon the Lectures , SfC By one of the People called Christians . 1819 . Art . VIII . —A Letter to the Rev . Thomas RennelL From a Graduate in Medicine . 1819 . Art . IX . —A Letter on the Reputed
Immateriality of trie Human Soul : trith Strictures on the Rev . T . RennelVs late Publication . 1821 . Hunter . 3 s . Art . X . —An Inquiry into the Opinions , Ancient and Modern , concerning Life and Organization . By John Barclay , M . D . Edinburgh . 1822 . 1 2 * .
[ A correspondent having sent the following paper in the form of a Review , the Kditor publishes it in that form , though without plcdgiug himself to every opiuiou expressed in it . ] l'i have been almost deterred by Wthe long array of belligerents in this controversy , from entering the field and attempting a Review of their respective merits ; but the subject being owe of x > cculiar interest , and having-
Review. " Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame,"—Pope
REVIEW . " Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame , "—Pope
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been treated by most of our content poraries with disgraceful bigotry , shall attempt a general retrospect of the publications we have enumerated bespeaking the indulgence of our readers on account of our necessarily restricted limits .
The inquiry into the principle of life and organization is intrinsically one of philosophical curiosity ? and peculiarly so to Unitarians , who , per . haps , in their general sectarian character , may be denominated Materialists . On this particular question
our own individual opinions are unsettled , and perhaps at variance with the theory of Materialism ; but at the same time we cannot stand timidly by and witness the scandalous opinions imputed to the Materialists , as consequences of their doctrine , and repeated
in a geometrical progressive ratio with the solemnity and repetition of denial : for what , in the year A . D . 1821 , could exceed the following sentence in Mr . RennelPs ( the Christian Advocate ' s ) Remarks on Scepticism : " Atheism and Materialism go hand in hand" ? We offer this " Christian Advocate" his
choice of the two horns of the dilemma—ignorance or impudence . This controversy has also become more interesting from the recent suppression of Mr . Lawrence ' s works , which appears to have become
necessary from the clamour of bigotry in fits , and the imminent danger of his gown and temporalities—the Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of burgeons , &e . The "Holy Alliance" ( in the name of
the Holy Trinity ) and their connexions , it is well known , are great epicures iu books , and seem to have given Mr . Lawrence a place in the revived Ind Expurg . Anglicanus : such is the spirit of these literary incendiaries .
The theory of life was , undoubtedly , at an earlier period of philosop hical and religious knowledge , an object-of more anxious importance than at present , since the possibility and probability of a future state were deep ly implicated in the research , while the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/42/
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