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the power of education, which will make 

 men believe any thing. It will, no doubt, 

 be thought presumption, to call in question 

 a doctrine which has the law of prescriptive 

 right hi its favour ; and it will be reckoned 

 something worse, to differ in opinion and 

 practice, from what has prevailed since the 

 creation of the world : but we are of opi- 

 nion that no time can make right that which 

 is wrong, nor wrong that which is right. 



these operate in the same way : by relaxing the whole 

 fluid system, and so enabling every part to maintain 

 and perform its proper functions, and giving any weak- 

 ened or injured part, an opportunity of recovering its 

 lost power. For it is easily understood, that while 

 every part performs its functions in due proportion to 

 the whole, no disease will ensue ; but if, in any way, 

 the balance is lost, inflammation will take place in the 

 one, and canker in the other. 



