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FOOTNOTES

1 Mr. Abernethy.

2 Experiment, as an organ of reason, not less distinguished from the
blind or dreaming industry of the alchemists, than it was
successfully opposed to the barren subtleties of the schoolmen.

3 Whose own mind, however, was not comprehended in the vortex; where
Kepler erred it was in the other extreme.

4 But still less would I avail myself of its acknowledged
inappropriateness to the purposes of physiology, in order to cast a
self-complacent sneer on the soul itself, and on all who believe in
its existence. First, because in my opinion it would be impertinent;
secondly, because it would be imprudent and injurious to the
character of my profession; and, lastly, because it would argue an
irreverence to the feelings of mankind, which I deem scarcely
compatible with a good heart, and a degree of arrogance and
presumption which I have never found, except in company with a
corrupt taste and a shallow capacity.

5 Vide Lawrence's Lecture.

6 Joh. Bapt. a Vico, Neapol. Reg. eloq. Professor, de antiquissima
Itallorum sapientia ex lingua Latina originibus aruenda: libri tres.
Neap., 1710.

7 The object I have proposed to myself, and wherein its distinction
exists, may be thus illustrated. A complex machine is presented to
the common view, the moving power of which is hidden. Of those who
are studying and examining it, one man fixes his attention on some
one application of that power, on certain effects produced by that
particular application, and on a certain part of the structure
evidently appropriated to the production of these effects, neither
the one or other of which he had discovered in a neighbouring
machine, which he at the same time asserts to be quite distinct from