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ought to have restrained him. In my next 

 lectures, which were designed more fully to 

 explain Mr. Hunter's opinions, by showing 

 the manner in which he had deduced them 

 from the consideration of ail the vital pro- 

 cesses, I carefully concealed Mr. Lawrence 

 from public view, by arguing against a 

 party, by contending against opinions and 

 not against persons : nor did I ever men- 

 tion his name or words but in order to in- 

 duce others to suppose that we did not 

 differ in sentiments. The sentence to which 

 I allude ran thus : " Comparative anatomy, 

 also, as my brother Professor very judi- 

 ciously observed in his introductory lec- 

 tures, furnishes abundant arguments to the 

 natural theologian, by the evidences it af- 

 fords of design, and of the adaptation of 

 means to ends." When, however, I per- 

 ceived that he was hurt by these lectures, I 

 assured him that I did not mean personally 

 to allude to him, and after consideration 

 added, neither could I conceive how he could 

 suppose that I did, unless indeed by identi- 

 fying himself with those writers from whose 

 works he had copied. I offered also to 

 expunge the sentence above quoted. He 



