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till they shall have accompanied us farther in our 
progress, and are thereby better enabled to appre- 
ciate the importance of the discussions in which we 
have been engaged. If Physiology, and the arts of 
Agriculture and of Medicine, which so much de- 
pend upon it, be ever destined to pass the narrow 
bounds which are at present drawn around them, to 
rise from facts to principles, and from effects to 
their causes, it can only be by the large and liberal 
cultivation of almost every branch of natural know- 
ledge. " Interim nemo expectet magnum progres- 
sum in scientiis, (prassertim in parte earum opera- 
tiva), nisi philosophia naturalis ad scientias particu- 
lares producta fuerit, et scientiae particulares rursus 
ad naturalem phiiosophiam reductae. Hinc enim fit, 
ut plurimas artes mechanics, atque ipsa medicina, 
atque (quod quis magis miretur), philosophia mo- 
ralis et civilis, et scientiae logicae, nil fere habeant 
altitudinis in profundo ; sed per su^erficiem et varie- 
tatem rerum tantum labantur." " Itaque minime 
mirum est, si scientiae non crescant, cum a radicibus 
suis sint separate *." It is under the impression of 
these truths, that, through the whole of our inquiries, 
we have freely sought assistance from every depart- 
ment of science, to which we were able to apply, 
convinced, that " that philosophy beareth best its 
own name, which doth not strain all to two or three 
principfes, like two or three bells in a steeple, mak- 
ing a pitiful chime, but trieth to rise up to Nature's 
* Nov. Organ, lib. i. 
