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You conclude this Lecture, by recommend- 

 ing the works of Haller to the attention of the 

 English student. Indeed, Sir, it would be 

 well if you had imitated, not only the experi- 

 mental research, but the piety of " this father 

 " and founder of modern physiology." Haller 

 was a believer not only in all the great truths of 

 natural religion, but a zealous advocate for the 

 truth and authority of the Christian revelation. 

 In an admirable work addressed to his daughter, 

 hfc has left us his deliberate opinions on this 

 subject. " Your father, who now addresses. 

 " you, during the course of a long life, spent 

 " in continual labour and study, thought him- 

 " self obliged to consecrate some of his leisure 

 " hours, to inquiries of this nature. The re- 

 " suit of which was, that those truths which 

 "have been called in question, always ap- 

 " peared to him the more evident and res- 

 " pectable, the more attentively he examined 

 "the proofs and reasons on which they were 

 " founded." " The rock of salvation is solidity 

 e< itself. It cannot be shaken, either by the 

 " doubts of the sceptic, or the sarcasms of the 



sneerer." 



I remain, &c. 



