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replied, " No ; I do not object to it : you 

 may do as you please." I therefore inserted 

 the words without naming the author. Is 

 it then generous in Mr. Lawrence to say, 

 " that the quotation of his own words ren- 

 dered it impossible for him to shield him- 

 self under the pretext of uncertainty," or 

 to suggest that my lectures (which were ex- 

 cited as an act of self-defence) were meant 

 chiefly as an attack upon his conduct and 

 character ? Is it becoming in Mr. Lawrence 

 to hold me forth to public view as one 

 blinded by national prejudice to the merits 

 of persons of other countries ? On the 

 contrary, I consider all mankind as bre- 

 thren, yet all brothers have not the same 

 sentiments and dispositions. The sons of 

 science may more particularly be regarded 

 as of one family, and their residence m dif- 

 ferent countries cannot annul their frater- 

 nity. Yet surely it is allowable in me to 

 suppose that the notions of our brother 

 physiologists in France may have been in- 

 fluenced by the state of public opinion in 

 that country. I am aware that what I have 

 termed modern scepticism arose in a great 

 degree from good feelings ; from an abhor- 



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