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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to perceive that the operation of the same causes might perpetuate the regular mo- tions of the planetary system? Why do we note facts with accuracy, or collect them with diligence? why do we inter- rogate nature by experiment? Is it not because we wish to prove some of our own opinions to be true, or the opposing opinions of others to be false ? or, because we wish to enlarge the boundaries of science in a direction in which we think they admit of extension? What induces one person to prohibit another from theo- rizing? Is it not because he has himself attempted it in vain, and therefore deems the attempt unavailing ? Feelings and opinions are the chief sources of all our intellectual conduct: we ought therefore to cultivate good and ho- norable feelings, and to scrutinize opinions, with a view to entertain none but those