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hey are consistent, must rank medicine among the 

 >lack arts and count the physician a mischievous 

 ireserver of the unfit ; on whose matrimonial un- 

 lertakings the principles of the stud have the chief 

 nfluence ; whose whole lives, therefore, are an 

 ducation in the noble art of suppressing natural 

 ,ffection and sympathy, are not likely to have any 

 irge stock of these commodities left. But, with- 

 ut them, there is no conscience, nor any restraint 

 n the conduct of men, except the calculation of 

 elf-interest, the balancing of certain present grati- 

 ications against doubtful future pains; and ex- 

 icrience tells us how much that is worth. Every 

 ay, we see firm believers in the hell of the theo- 

 Dgians commit acts by which, as they believe when 

 ool x they risk eternal punishment ; while they 

 told back from those which are opposed to the 

 ympathies of their associates. 



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XIII 



That progressive modification of civilization 

 fhich passes by the name of the " evolution of 

 ociety," is, in fact, a process of an essentially 

 ifferent character, both from that which brings j.#dl ** 

 bout the evolution cf species, in the state of 

 lature, and from that which gives rise to the evo- ff * " 

 ution of varieties, in the state of art. 



There can be no doubt that vast changes have 

 aken place in English civilization since the reign 



