138 FARCY. 



SYSTEM has long been necessary to rescue this 

 most useful and suffering animal 

 FROM STABULARIAN IGNORANCE, 

 AND EMPIRICAL CONFIDENCE. 



Can it be supposed, will reason or reflec- 

 tion for a moment support the idea, that the 

 most severe and burning caustics, very little 

 short of actual fire, were ever calculated, 

 when laid on by loads, to rectify the blood, 

 or to promote an incarnation of the flesh } 

 It must create astonishment in every mind 

 calm by time, or cool "'by experience, that 

 men have lived, who, from a want of know^ 

 ledge in the properties of medicines, could 

 so prostitute their uses ; or others prove so 

 weak as to transmit that prostitution to pos- 

 terity 1 But so deeply has the injurious and 

 dangerous system taken root among the illi- 

 terate, who stick to a rustic maxim never to 

 be obliterated, that '' old laws, old times, 

 " old songs, and old books, are best,'' and 

 consequently fly to the latter upon every 

 occasion ; in whose instructions they have 

 so much faith, and to whose contents they 

 pay such implicit obedience, that the verij 

 DEVIL, however great his influence be ia 



