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would take you at your word, and with all my 

 admiration for your talents, " would allow you 

 " to strip it off/' rather than behold the minds 

 and morals of so many young men endangered 

 by speculations which are subversive of their 

 temporal happiness, and their eternal welfare. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER III. 



SIR, 



THE multifarious subjects of your Lectures 

 will render me, I fear, somewhat desultory and 

 unconnected in my remarks on those inquiries, 

 which are incidentally introduced into your 

 work. I have already confessed, that I have no 

 pretensions to criticize your surgical and anato- 

 mical knowledge. In this respect, you com- 

 mand my admiration, by the extent of your ac- 

 quaintance with foreign authors, and my im- 

 plicit deference to that tribunal which has al- 

 ready assigned you so large a share of reputa- 

 tion at home. But, when you step beyond 

 your own profession, to interfere with morals, 



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