PHYSIOLOGICAL LECTURES 



In the Year 1817. 



LECTURE I. 



After resolving to write no more lec- 

 tures, nor longer to praise Mr. Hunter, 

 I break this resolution ; yet my conduct 

 seems to need no apology, for if my first 

 decision was wrong, it is creditable to re- 

 tract it ; and if I am now wrong, it is pro- 

 bable I shall soon discover my error, the 

 candid acknowledgment of which would 

 then be far better than ingenious excuses. 



I have praised Mr. Hunter for his Theory 

 of Life, because it is a probable one, cau- 

 tiously and philosophically deduced, and 

 adequate to explain the phagnomena. 

 Therefore am I directed by the precepts 

 of philosophy, and also induced by other 



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