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indeed, be faved ; and if our influence in 
India has ever entailed evils* on the na- 
tives, this one aét of kindnefs on our 
part ought to be viewed as no inconfide- 
wable or inadequate compenfation.” 
But, great as this mercy was, it is al- 
moft certain that the averfion of the 
Gentoos to the cufloms of Europe, and 
their ttrong antipathy to every thing fo- 
reign, would have rejected it, 1f it had not 
been propitioufiy recommended by a ve- 
neration for that {acred animal from which 
at forung! Never wes there a more con- 
fpicuous procf and example of the myfte- 
rious manner in which ail human mci 
dents and events are interwoven as caules 
and effects im the general and reticulated 
fyfem, how light may {pring out of dark- 
nefs, knowledge from ignorance and fu- 
peritition, anc good be educed from evil. 
fn like manner the Romifh fuperiftition 
promo‘ed the aris of flacuary, {culpture, 
and paintics. 
The world is obliged by the compila- 
tion before us: but it would have given 
greater fatisfaiion, if the reader, inftead 
of wading through a number of detached 
Jetters, had been prefented with the in- 
troduction of vaccination into India, not- 
withfianding the obfiacles oppofed to 
back its progreis and reception, in the 
order of cauie and effect, in an hiltorical 
manner; a delign which would have em- 
braced various views, not only phyfical and 
medical, but moral and political, 
=e 
For the Menthly Megazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
XCiV. — DISSENTIENTS. 
UR Univerfity was always confidered 
as a handmaid to the Church, asa 
nurie to her moft hopeful fons: from her 
‘mouth proceeded a formula of doétrine, 
recommending its inftitutes ; and from her 
breaits a milk of inftruGtion, highly faz 
-vourabie to what Bifhop Warburton calls 
its alliance with the fiate. 
From fervices, teo obvious not to be per- 
ceived, and tco important not to be acknow- 
Jedged, flowed that uniform refpe& of our 
princes. Viewing Cambridge, not merely 
as an Academia, facred to literature, but 
as an eftablifhment to forward the withes 
of goverament, they became the patrons 
of colleges, they incorporated the feveral 
colleges into one body, and befRowed on 
them privileges, immunities, and charters. 
Thefe charters, diftributed as fireams of 
« * Of which, we are bold to add, there can 
be no doubt, 
Caontabrigiana. 
[Dec. 1, 
royal bounty, to chear and enrich the res 
gions of fcience, were to be repaid. by 
loyaltyand obedience. Hencewas fecured to 
the fupreme magiltrate an influence, which 
no other inftitutions could promife, the 
united influence of literature and theology. 
Por, as the church was held to its allegiance 
by areligious formula, it was. deemed a 
matter of political expediency to bind 
the univerfity by the tame tie; and thus 
the doétrines of the church became the 
doctrines of the univerfity. 
Alterius fic 
Altera pofcit opem, et res conjurat amicé.—- 
Hor. 
Thefe principles were the main {pring 
of our great political machine, and “di- 
rected the movements of all our princes, 
from Henry VIIIth to the Revolution ; 
yet were they at length experienced, how 
efficacious foever they might appear to be 
at firfl, but a partialexpedient. For, tho” 
men, inattentive to the powers of the hu-— 
man underitanding, ignorant of the world 
around them, or within them, purfuing 
phantoms, and chimeras, and dreams—no. 
bedy knows where—may be brought to 
relinguith the faculty of reafoning, yet a fo- 
ciety of learned men, living publickly, and 
thinking freely, cannot eafily be brought 
to make a furrender fo ignominious. Inma- 
greement with this idea, Dr. Paley, Dr. 
Hey, and other divines of Cambridge, 
have maintained, that the public fentiment 
has undergone a change in regard to fome 
theological notions, originally delivered by 
authority. Mathematics, too, which have 
long been the prevailing ftudy at Cam- 
bridge, are of a bold and fearching {pirit. 
Unaccuftomed to admit any thing in-hatte, 
habituated to reafon from principles in- 
variably trae and univerfally acknow- 
ledged, contemplating the analogies of 
nature, and proceeding in a way of {ci- 
ence, the mathematician embraces no 
opinions at random, how venerable fo- 
ever for their antiquity, and though fanc- 
tioned by the higheft authority. He exa- 
imines coolly, debates with candour, and - 
concludes with caution. Such is the na- 
tural procels of philofophy, and fuch has 
been the effect of the philofophizing {pirit 
at Cambridge. 
Having ipoken of fome Diflentients 
from the diicipline of the church, we 
fhall proceed to oihers, who were Diffen- 
tients from its doctrine. We, however, 
{hall pafs by the controverfy between the 
Calvinifts and Arminians, as to the inter- 
pretation. of fome of the articles, for 
dofirines, the tendency of which can be 
little difputed ; nor do we intend to de- 
tend, 
