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*' for the more active ingredients." If you had 

 adopted an equally harmless method for amus. 

 ing your pupils during the course of your inves- 

 tigation on professional subjects, I should not 

 have presumed to trouble you with any remarks. 

 But, since you have blended these researches 

 with attacks on the foundations of natural and 

 revealed theology, and with sneers at the reli- 

 gious and civil institutions of your country, 

 I have felt it my duty, as a parent, an English- 

 man, and a Christian, to protest against the in- 

 troduction of such disorganizing principles into 

 Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons. 



Your hatred and contempt of the clergy have 

 transported you beyond all decency of lan- 

 guage; as when you speak,* of the " vermin 

 " of priests and monks;" while such is your 

 abhorrence of the " worn out despotism of the 

 " old world," that you hint all the royal fami- 

 lies of Europe are becoming no better than so 

 many idiots.f I should really hope, Sir; that 

 they are not yet so far gone in this malady 

 as not to perceive the consequences of your 

 speculations. J " The legislature, in voting 

 " public money to purchase the rich collection 

 " of Mr. Hunter, and to prepare a suitable 

 " building for its safe deposit, and the rulers of 

 " the College" in appointing you to the office of 

 public Lecturer, never intended that the pur- 



* P. 488. i P. 460. P. 575. 



