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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Physiology of Digestion: Introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica; Delivered Before the Medical Class of the University of the City of New York, at the Session of 1844-5
Differences of Opinion on questions of great moment to mankind are apt to be strongly conveyed, and apparent error to be censured in no measured terms. This, perhaps, is Often admissible, considering the obstinacy Of error, and so long as it is the doctrine, and not its au thor, which is assailed. 'we may revere the names Of Voltaire, of Hume, and Of Gibbon, yield them a proud rank in the scale of intel lect, and gratefully acknowledge the rich legacies they have left he hind. But, who of us would hesitate to speak Of their infidelity according to its nature and tendencies? This is even demanded by what we believe of the precepts of religion. And so of the principles of medicine, which hold as high a relation to the temporal interests of man, as do the precepts Of religion to his spiritual welfare. The high est order Of intellect is Often devoted to the dissemination Of error, and perhaps more frequently in religion and medicine than in any other of the great interests of mankind. This must be fully and firmly met, not only by evidences of the truth, but by an exposure of its perver sions and corruptions.
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