left us to the belief that the knowledge of anti- 

 quity was to be derived through the vulgar me- 

 dium of ancient history. What is to become of the 

 morals of the populace, if they once should adopt 

 your opinions? "Takeaway from the mind of man 

 " the operations of the five external senses, and 

 cc the functions of the brain, and what will be 

 " left behind ?" * What truly, Sir, but the jail and 

 the gallows neither of which would long deter 

 from crimes and atrocities; and you would then 

 find that the " odium theologicum" f " was not 

 " the most concentrated essence of animosity 

 " and rancour." 



But, perhaps, you will reply, that these were 

 mysteries intended only for the initiated, and that 

 your pupils alone were to receive the benefit of 

 such instructions. I fear that this apology will 

 prove of little service in your defence. It re- 

 quires no great intimacy with the state of the 

 metropolis, to know, that young men of this de- 

 scription do not require to be told of the into- 

 lerance of religious sects, nor to be furnished 

 with excuses for religious indifference. Indeed, 

 Sir, you might have found more appropriate and 

 more profitable topics, than to rail at the priests 

 of former times, and to compare the discussions 

 of religion to the quarrels of the ladies. { From 

 what is generally understood of the morals of too 

 many of those young gentlemen who walk the 

 hospitals, and frequent the medical schools of 



* P. 7. f P. 10. j P. 10,11. 



