A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : For the service of the afflicted applying to him: for whom alone is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human miseries, and the prevalent infirmities of their minds and bodies. To which is prefixed various vindications and detections ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : For the service of the afflicted applying to him: for whom alone is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human miseries, and the prevalent infirmities of their minds and bodies. To which is prefixed various vindications and detections ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, AND VARIOUS VINDICATIONS. REFERRING to the most ostensible information, if the sen- timent had not been implanted in men by their all wise Maker, and likewise if they had not received from him the peremptory injunction of doing good to each other ; to receive this angelical and sublime instruction, it is an incontrovertible truth, that to enlighten men in the exercise of their duty, if making use to know it of their rational faculties to examine, it is undeniable, that the human species should find lessons of charity, given to them in the most minute and imperceptible products of the ma- terial world, by conspicuously displaying on the surface of this globe palpable proofs and innumerable plights of universal be- nevolence. Hence if for the rational species to be charitable to each other, is the particular instruction received generally from the omnific procreator ; the performance then of such a noted incumbency ought to prevent the wondering of its fulfil- ment ; if only reflecting, that in the practice of doing good when besides the yielding to the impulsion which ought to he the innate one of the human heart, the action of charity done by