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certain that , without them , those reforms will lack security for their durability . The constitution of government and the state of society have in them permanent principles of corruption , which can only be repressed by constantly invigorating the principle of improvement . The better the present parliament is , the more earnest should its members be to do all that can be done to preclude the possibility of a bad parliament hereafter . We are so well satisfied with the results of the elections , and have so much confidence in the general character of the elected , that we not only require—but fully expect this at their hands .
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Dr . Southwood Smith is engaged in delivering a course of lectures at the London Institution in illustration of the functions of the animal economy , It is no small satisfaction to see in the crowded attendance , and in the deep attention of the audience , the value of this first attempt to open to the public , and especially to the female portion of it , the stores of interesting and practical knowledge included in this subject , so well appreciated . That the subject is capable of exciting interest is shown by the manner in which the lecturer is listened to ; and that in his hand it will be
turned to good account , will appear from the extracts from his lectures which we have an opportunity of laying before our readers . Dr . Southwood Smith commenced his first lecture with the following observations , no less appropriate to his subject than worthy of serious consideration .
' With the facts and relations of the physical sciences you are familiar , but the far more carious and interesting phenomena connected with the organization of living beings and with the Ia \ v 3 that regulate vital actions , few of you can have had the means of studying . The book of inorganic and inanimate nature , in our day has been laid open to every one . There is no page of that book which any one is
forbidden to consult or to study ; and there is no passage in any page of it , from the real knowledge of which it is apprehended that anyone can receive anything but advantage . But from the study of that portion of the book of nature which relates most peculiarly to ourselves , to the organization of our physical frames , and even to the still more wonderful mechanism of our mental constitution , all but the cultivators
of an exclusive profession , or the severe and devoted students of philosophy , have been wholly , if not purposely excluded . 4 And I am not sure if , at this present moment , there be not in some minds the feeling that ail attention to subjects of this class in properly confined to those who are to practise medicine as a calling , «or to make the study of philosophy the business of life . * * *
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The Election * . 49
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DR . SOUTHWOOD SMITH ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL ECONOMY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/49/
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