Introductory lectures : exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1815
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    been often proposed as theories and so denominated. That such foolish specu- lations, such waking dreams, will mis- lead and deceive us, cannot be doubted ; and hence has arisen the prejudice which some have entertained against the term. JThe greatest philosophers were through the whole course of their enquiries and demonstrations, theorists. Theorizing, ac- cording to my conception of the word, means nothing more than thinking cor- rectly, in a concatenated manner, and in conformity to rules which I shall pre- sently have occasion to notice. It is scarcely necessary for me to assert that this kind of thinking is useful, and promo- tive of Science. For was it not thinking in this manner on the cause of an apple falling from a tree, that led Sir Isaac Newton to ascertain the laws of attrac- tion? was it not thinking thus which led him