complete your argument, and at once demolish: 

 their belief in Revelation, you pronounce " the 

 " representation of all the animals when brought 

 " before Adam," and their subsequent collec- 

 tion by Noah in the Ark, as "zoologically 

 " impossible." p. 249254. 



It is not my intention, Sir, on the present 

 occasion, to enter with you into any discussion 

 on the force or futility of these objections ; but 

 merely to remonstrate with you on the danger 

 and impropriety of mixing up questions of this 

 description with those inquiries which relate to 

 physiology, in its connexion with surgery and 

 medicine. You must allow me to doubt, Sir, 

 whether even your " knowledge of the original 

 " and other Oriental languages,"* qualifies you to 

 become judge in matters which are so entirely 

 foreign to your profession. But, whatever may 

 be your acquirements, you must know, that 

 those whom you address are altogether incom-* 

 petent from their youth and imperfect educa- 

 tion, to form any just or deliberate opinion on 

 this subject. It is unfair and uncandid in the 

 highest degree, to attempt to unsettle the minds 

 of your pupils on topics with which you have 

 no professional concern, and on which they are 

 totally unprepared to follow you. 



Having destroyed the authority of the Jewish 

 Scriptures, you afterwards desire to set aside 

 that verdict in which the annals and traditions 

 of all nations have involuntarily concurred, by 

 establishing the authenticity of these accounts. 



* P. 249. 



