A treatise on the botanic theory and practice of medicine : compiled from various sources, with revisions and additions : to which is added a glossary / by A.N. Worthy.

  • Worthy, A. N. (Alfred N.)
Date:
1842
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Credit: A treatise on the botanic theory and practice of medicine : compiled from various sources, with revisions and additions : to which is added a glossary / by A.N. Worthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This Bubjecl cannot, however, be dropped without il thai tlu> discussion concerniE ticular entity of the mind, seems to have been conducted with an undue degree of heal fidencc on all sides, considering oui pi orance of whatever substana been appealed to tituting its specific frame. . [s the essence of the mind, soul, or spirit, material or immaterial The question, at first Bight, appears to be of the utmosi importance and gravity ; and to involve nothing less than a belief or disbelief, not indeed, in its divine origin, but in its divine similitude and immortality. i et, may venture to allinn, that there is no question which has been produc- tive of so little satisfaction, or has laid a foundation for wider or wilder errors within the whole range of metaphysics. And for this plain and obvious reason, thai we have listinci ideas of the terms, and no settled premises to build upon. Corraptibility and incorruptibility, intell and unintelligent, organized and ; terms that convey dis- tinct meanings to the mind, and impart modes of being tit ithin the scope ofour comprehension. But materiality and immateriality are equally beyond our reach. (>f the essence of matter we know nothing, and altogether as little of many of its more that, amidst all the discoveries of the day, it still remains a controvertible position, whether light, heat, magnetism and electricity are material sub- stances, material properties, or thinj superadded to ma ■ ' of a higher nature. I I'll lev be matter, gravity and ponderability are not essential properties of* matter, though commonly so regarded. And if they be thin added to matter, they are n< i immaterial, and we our eyes without beholding innumerable proofs of material and imma- terial bodies co-existing and acting in harmonious union through the entire frame of nature. Bui if we know nothingofth -.and bul little of the qualities of matt* r, of that common substrate which is dim; around us in every direction, and constitutes the whole of the visible world, what can we know of what is immaterial ? of the full igofaterm that in its comprebi ie rest, ofthe immet of actual and possible being; and includes in its \ iference, every essence and mode of essence of every oik , ell below as above the order of matter, and even that of the Deity himself 1 Shall ue take the quality of extension as the I tween what is material and what is immaterial ] This, ind< general and favorite distinction brought forward in tl it is a distinction founded on mi ! which will by no mean-; stand the test of inquiry. idmits it to be so. But is - it body of any kind 1 Di indeed, contended that it is body, and a material hod vacuum,- to be a part of matter itself: but. ii blethat there is not a single espoi opinion in the present day If t! i and to space, it c contemplated as the peculiar i if we allow it to immaterial space, th< (j'not allow it to immaterial spirit. I|i|l(l thinking principle, the latter . JL or