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suits of science should be perverted into beguil- 



ments of our youth to the wilds of Irreligion or 



Democracy. And yet, presuming on this idiotcy, 



you confidently ask the following question 



."Can we hope to proceed safely in legislation, 



" in public institutions, or in education, with- 



" out that acquaintance with the physical and 



" moral qualities of the subject which such in- 



.** vestigations are calculated to supply ?" p. 574. 



To be serious, Sir, you have entirely mistaken 

 the nature of that office to which you have been 

 elected. You were chosen, I presume, as " the 

 " Professor of Anatomy and Surgery " to in- 

 struct young men in those sciences which are 

 connected with the surgical profession: instead 

 of which, you are delivering your sentiments on 

 laws, and religion, and politics. To shew you 

 how incompetent you are to direct them in 

 these matters, I would now beg leave to recapi- 

 tulate a few contradictions which I have met 

 with in your Theologico-Politico-Physiologico 

 speculations. 



In p. 271, you say, " that Zoology does 

 " not possess the means of solving the question, 

 " whether mankind have drawn their origin 

 " from one pair of human beings;" whereas, in 

 page 305, you assert " that, however unwilling 

 " the European may be to trace up his pedigree 

 " to the same Adam,*' yet that the differences of 

 colour, &c. are altogether insufficient to establish 

 diversity of species. 



In p. 254, you represent ancient history as 

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