facts or physiological observations, I should have 

 felt myself totally incapable of estimating the 

 value of your Lectures. But, since you have 

 travelled into the regions of history and morals, 

 have denounced the abstractions of metaphysics, 

 and ridiculed the records of revelation, I feel 

 myself at liberty to offer you my opinions on 

 these subjects, and I shall do it with the greater 

 freedom, because I am satisfied that your time 

 and attention must have been chiefly devoted to 

 other inquiries. In your reply to the charges of 

 Mr. Abernethy, you have facetiously alluded to 

 the currier who proposed a fortification of lea- 

 ther in a council of war. I fear, Sir, that many 

 of your readers will be disposed to turn this al- 

 lusion against yourself. In your ardor for phy- 

 siological studies, you have contrived to destroy 

 the value of almost every other science. In 

 your hands, ancient history is but a maze of ob- 

 scurity,* and modern history but a perversion 

 of government. f Christianity is chiefly of va- 

 lue as the stepmother of quakerism ; J and the 

 whole science of mind is represented a Utopian 

 research. Indeed, Sir, as we are not all intended 

 for surgeons and physicians, you should have 

 shewn some little regard for those who may be- 

 come your patients, as well as your pupils. As 

 it is not every man who can enjoy the opportu- 

 nity of studying human nature in a Caucasian 

 or Mongolian variety, you might as well have 



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