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Excerpt from Observations on Animal Electricity: In Explanation of the Metallic Operation of Doctor Perkins
Man by nature poileffes a njw formaiwur, and B is as prone to novelty and inve?igation, as the earth is to revolve from ungovernable laws of nature. Yet, there are few difcoveries in the. Healing art but what meet with tumultuous op pofition, from the congregated legions of pre judice, ignorance and ambition. Some nomi nal philofophers diibelieve every propofition that does not accord with the infallible doc trines of their immaculate ancefiors; and others are fo extremely illiberal, as to difcard every new principle in which they can have no claim to intereft. A glaring example of the latter we have, in the degrading denunciations of the Englilh philofophers, when the'illu?rious Dr. Franklin's difcovery of the identity of Light ning and Electricity was firfi delivered to the world. A fecond, no lefs true, we have in the difcovery of Dr. Perkins' Metallic Opera tion, which will like the former arife trium phant amidf't the counter, but futile, vocifera tion of prejudice and ignorance. Some reject the latter, becaufe they were not the inventors. Others quefiion the tef'timony of their fenfes, becaufe they cannot explain the 111011111 operand? Thereof, by referring it to the good old doc trines of Van Helmont, Doleus, or Stahl. Yet the happy day is perhaps not far dii'tant, when envy muf't fall a facrifice to truth, and behold this problem accounted for, on a native law of the animal (economy.
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