2^g LECTURE VI. 



and consequently prejudiced against those 

 of others. In argument we strive for vic- 

 tory rather than seek for truth. That self- 

 conceit which leads us chiefly to attend to 

 our own opinions and feelings, and to dis- 

 regard those of others, renders us indocile, 

 unfits us for patient and impartial con- 

 sideration, and is a great obstacle to the 

 progress of science, as well as to human 

 happiness in general. 



Mr. Hunter believed that the secerning 

 arteries, having prepared the various kinds 

 of nutritive materials for building and y&- 

 pairing the different structures of the body, 

 deposited the atoms from their open orifices 

 with such regularity, as in a great degree to 

 achieve this surprizing purpose. He how- 

 ever believed that the life of the parts as- 

 sisted in producing their arrangement. The 

 occurrences met with in disease afford the 

 strongest confirmation of these opinions ; 

 every fibre being subject to sudden and un- 

 natural increase, mutation, or removal. 



In consequence of the opinion that each 



