242 Conliiiuuiidii of I he Comparison of the 



before Inunilation, inoculation, and flic treatment often re- 

 quired during, and always after, the disease, with the abso- 

 lute necessity of lying by, it is an expense that the gene- 

 rality of mankind are unable aiid very often unwilling to 

 support. 



Tlu: coic-pock does 7iot admit th(^ nJittades to a general 

 inoiulaliuti iiliich the small-pox dors. 



The obstacles to a general inoculation of the small-pox are 

 such as in all probability to prevent a plan of this kind from 

 ever being carried into execution. 



Ut, The prejudices of the hmer orders of mankind. 



The cold calculator may estimate the advantaiics of ino- 

 culation to society, and calculate the coinparative niimler 

 oi' deal hi from the natural small-pox and artificial disease; 

 but yet, as he must allow that some die under inoculation, 

 the fond mother naturally ^vill thus argue within herself: 

 — " Can I bring niv mind to consent to what mav bereave 

 me of my dear child ? — If he were to die, how shall 1 forgive 

 mvself ? — Am I sure that I am not anticipating an evil that 

 mav never arrive? — Where is my right to do this? — Is he 

 certain to catch the small-pox? — And were this to happen, 

 and he were, alas ! to be taken from me at a later period, I 

 shall then, reiving on Providence, have nothing to reproach 

 myfclf with." 



In vain will the philosopher oppose to these natural sug- 

 gestions of the weak mind, 



1. That were the child to die under Inoculation, the mo- 

 ther has truly nothing to vipbraid herself with, having only 

 doric her duty. 



'2. And had not the Almighty designed inoculation to be 

 performed, it would not be endowed with the extraordinary 

 viritie it po.-sesses of preventing the small-pox, and have a 

 nature intuiilely milder than the other. 



The more ign()rant ilic person, thenjorc stubborn against 

 tlie conviction of reason ; and, as lludibras says, 



" S!ie who's persrac1ei5 '^^ainst her \vill 

 Is of the same opinion still." 



St) here, no force of argmiieut will be a}:)Je to bring over the 

 unwiUlnsr, and words are only lost in the attempt ; and a large 

 class of "mankind \sill bq alivays found adverse to inocula- 

 tion, the po.,sibility of death arising to the person inocu- 

 lated, Iving the stumbling-block again.-i it^ universai ac- 

 ception. 

 ^ Cdly, 



