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Thefe anfwers aye to be made by therm that 
come tote healed, _ 
: Let us pray. 
O Almighty God, who ert the giver of all 
health, and the aid of them that feek ro thee 
for fuccour, we call upon thee for thy help and 
goodnefs, mercifully to be fh wed upon thefe 
thy fervants, that chey being healed of their in- 
firmities, may give thanks unto thee in thy 
holy Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. 
Amen, 
Then the Chaplain, ftanding with his face 
towards them that come to be he healed, fhall 
fay, 
The Almighty Lord, who is a moft ftrong 
tower to al! them that put their truft in him, to 
whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under 
the earth, do bow and obey, be now and ever- 
more your defence, and make you know and 
feel that there is none other Name under heaven, 
given to man, in whom, and through whom 
you may receive health and falvation, but only 
the name of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen. 
_ The grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the 
“Jove of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy 
Ghoft, be with us all evermore. 
SEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIF, 
E yISCUSSION and controverfy, when 
* managed with temper, have ever 
appeared to me, not only a favourable 
method of exercifing the ingenuity and 
fharpening the faculties of the difputants, 
but likewile, of promoting a {pirit of li- 
beral curiofity and enquiry. 
| The fincere difciple of sruth fhould 
take nothing for granted, nor hold any 
thing as facred ; but fhould Gf J may be 
allowed the ftrong expreffion) be Licentious 
in his inveftigations. yrror, the refult 
of the independent refearches of the un- 
fettered individual, in its nature variable, 
is fhort-lived, and, by the contradiGion 
it involves, frequently affords the clue of 
truth : while prejudice, opinions taken 
upon truft from others, is uluaily fierce, 
obftinate, and intolerant. 
The fubjeét in difpute between your 
correfpondent J. T. and myfelf, has long 
been confidered as interefting, by the 
fpeculative part of mankind, from the 
many important confequences it in- 
volves: in faét, there are few branches 
either of moral, religious, or legiflative, 
fcience, that are nor nearer or more re- 
motcly connected with it. It is jufily 
obferved by Mr. Hume, that one con- 
fiderable advantage which refuits from 
the accurate and abitract philofephy 1s its 
relation and fubferviency tothe practi- 
cal and humane.: 
Though not convinced by the argu- 
ments of J. T. the candour with which 
he has fated his opinions, and examined 
Amen. 
Defence of Helvetius. 
[ Jan. 
thofe of his opponent, entitles him to 
refpeét and confideration. In reply to 
what he has alleged refpeéting his cita- 
tion from Huartes, I muft be permitted 
to hint, that when a writer brings for- 
ward a quotation from any author in 
fupport of an hypothefis, without tefti- 
fying any objections or limitations, it 
is ufual to confider him as refponfible for 
the fentiments thus edduced. The infe- 
rences drawn from the paflage feleéted 
from the Spanifh writer were fair and ob- 
vious: if J. T. took his ftation upon 
untenable ground, ought he to complain 
of the confequences of his own indifcre- 
tion? After’admitting the reafonings 
which have been urged for the effeéts of 
education, or moral caufes, on the powers 
of the human mind, your correfpondent 
ftill contends, ** that they amount to ne 
proof, and are inconclufive.”’ An appeal to 
experience and an enumeration of faéts is 
the only proof which this, or any other 
fubjeét, will admit of. Thefe faéts are 
allowed by J. T.; it remains, then, to 
examine thofe which, on his fide, are 
brought forward to counterbalance them. 
Firft, it is obferved, ‘* that many ftu- 
dents, who difcover a confiderable thirft 
for knowledge, and who employ much 
application, make not the fame progrefs 
with cthers, who neither difcover equal 
ardour nor application.” This is a very 
loofe and general affertion : different de- 
grees of apparent application, in different 
ftudents, might polfhuly admit of calcu- 
lation; but of the zztenfenefs of that ap- 
plication, of the proportion of ardour 
and emulation, or thirft of glory, which 
takes poffetiion of the mind, and fires the 
bofom, how are we to determine, unlets 
from its effeéts > This invigorating prin- 
ciple may be kindled, checked, extin- 
guifned, by a word, a glance, the flighteft 
and moft evanefcent’ caufes. “ It ts 
{carcely paffible,” fays J. T. “ fer a 
{choolmafter, or the head of any femi- 
nary, to be a diiciple of Helivetius.” 
Were this the faét, which the experi- 
rience of an individual is inadequate to 
eftabifh, it proves nothing. Before the 
age at which children enter {chools and 
colleges, they muft neceffarily have re- 
ceived a variety of imprefhons, which 
combining with thofe afterwards acquir- 
ed in'common, cannot fail of producing 
confiderable differences and inequalities 
of mind and charaéter. ‘* The leaft and 
moft imperceptible impreflions received 
in our infancy, have (it is obferved by 
Locke) confequences very important, and 
of Jong duration. It is with thefe firft 
imprefiions, as with a river, whole wa- . 
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