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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered Before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at Their Semiannual Meeting, June 12, 1804
The frequent attempts to investigate the principle of animation are in our opinion so many indirect declarations, that thegtheories on the subject hitherto published, are insufficient to explain its various phenomena. If this conclu sion be just, we trust we shall have/your indul gence, while we hazard a few observations on this interesting question, as connected with the object of your benevolent institution, however feeble may be our efforts to elucidate the subjeél. It would be thought presumption to offer a sys tem, while announcing the ruins of those which time and authority have sanctioned. But tyros in science, we have only learned to doubt; if from this we advance to the detection of errors, 6 the meteors of false principles will no longer bewilder the path of truth.
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