The blood, anatomically, physiologically, & pathologically considered, with a view to exemplify or set forth, by instance or example, the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, as revealed and declared in holy writ / by Charles Edward Joseph.

  • Joseph Charles Edward.
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[1846]
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Credit: The blood, anatomically, physiologically, & pathologically considered, with a view to exemplify or set forth, by instance or example, the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, as revealed and declared in holy writ / by Charles Edward Joseph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    THE EVIDENCES OF THE WISDOM, POWER, & GOODNESS OF THE CREATOR, SHEWN IN THE BLOOD UNDER ITS DIFFERENT CONDITIONS OF HEALTH & DISEASE. Gratitude is one of the most ennobling, self-devoting of human feelings. It has no mixture of earth's selfishness in it, it hopes for no future reward, it claims no acknowledgment, satisfied with pouring out its exhaustless store of thanks.— Constant as the sunshine, the kindly sense of well remembered benefits follows the benefactor through evil and good report, alike through the calms and tempests of life. It is sad that the cold and stern reality of human life and interests shows how sel- dom this noble emotion puts forth its genial influence. And the men who would establish themselves as gods upon the earth, owning allegiance to no higher power, divest them of all this feeling which should fill their hearts towards the author of all life. Some men have spent the powers of mind bestowed upon them in endeavouring to prove to their own satisfaction that there is no God. This doctrine is, in addition to its base- ness, so contrary to all human reason and observation, that few now embrace it. But there are other opinions, equally blasphe- mous in their tendency, and far more dangerous than the last with respect to proselytism, as they are more easily reconcileable with the limited human capacity. Some men of powerful, but wild, undisciplined minds, others of comparatively weak intel- lect, affect to disbelieve that God exists as he has revealed him- self to us in Holy Writ, and shape to themselves out of the rocks, woods, plains, and skies of universal nature (as they term o