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" that awful moment, which constitutes the ter- 

 " mination of our existence?" p. 577. 



It is the general tendency of your opinions to 

 represent the negroes as incapable of any ad- 

 vancement in arts and sciences, or in the mys- 

 teries of religion ; but at p. 560 you assert, 

 <c that they have the use of reason, and conse- 

 " quently of perfectibility /" It would be easy 

 for me, Sir, to adduce many other contradic- 

 tions, both in your arguments and your facts; 

 but these are sufficient, I trust, to convince you 

 that you are totally incompetent for the task 

 which you have undertaken, and that, if you 

 would preserve the reputation which you have 

 so justly acquired as a Professor of Anatomy 

 and Surgery, you must for the future confine 

 yourself to those inquiries which relate more 

 immediately to your own profession. 



I have little hope that any thing which I can 

 say will reclaim a mind so far gone in scep- 

 tical opinions. I fear, Sir, that the vanity of 

 displaying your acquirements has rendered 

 you, like most infidel writers, too disdainful of 

 others to listen to any sober argument. Yet I 

 cannot part from you without this farewel re- 

 commendation : " Review your principles." 

 It is not probable that a man of your talents 

 and acquirements should have run into such 

 palpable contradictions, unless there had been 

 something radically bad in the first elements of 

 his reasonings. That foundation must be inse- 

 cure, on which a superstructure so tottering, 



