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et dicere quce sentiam. Truth is my object, and, 

 though I have become a writer, my disposition 

 is really discere libentius quam dicere. 



The lapse of ten years since the last publi- 

 cation of Professor Blumenbach's work, no less 

 than since that of M. Richerand's, has compelled 

 me to supply notes of correction as well as of 

 addition, and will excuse me for differing on 

 some points from my celebrated and venerable 

 author, without urging what is universally al- 

 lowed, — that, when a dwarf gets on the shoul- 

 ders of a giant, he may see farther than the giant 

 himself. 



Whatever is peculiar and excellent in M. Ma- 

 jendie's Physiological work, has been carefully 

 transferred, so that my readers will, I trust, pos- 

 sess not only a full and faithful statement of the 

 Physiological Science of the present time, but 

 enjoy the advantage of a sort of triple work by a 

 German, a Frenchman, and an Englishman. 



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