DR. DARWIN. 



health, profperity, and all that high repu- 

 tation, which Mr. Inge afterwards ppffcfled 

 as a public magiftrate. 



The far-fpreading report of this judici- 

 oufly daring and fortunate exertion brought 

 Dr. Darwin into immediate and extend ve 

 employment, and foon eclipfed the hopes 

 of an ingenious rival, who redgned the 

 conteft; nor, afterwards, did any other 

 competitor bring his certainly ineffectual 

 lamp into that fphere, in which fo bright 

 a luminary flione. 



Equal fuccefs, as in the cafe of Mr. Inge, 

 continued to refult from the powers of Dr. 

 Darwin's genius, his frequent and intenfe 

 meditation, and the avidity with which he, 

 through life, devoted his leifure to fcien- 

 tide acquirement, and the investigation of 

 difeafe. Ignorance and timidity, fuperfti- 

 tion, prejudice, and envy, feduloufly ftrovc 

 to attach to his practice the terms, rafh, 

 experimental, theoretic ; not conddering, that 



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