A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician.

  • Hunt, Ezra Mundy, 1830-1894.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gence; but if chance be direction which we cannot see, then we come back to the idea of a supreme intelligence which has made and controls all things. We may talk of material power, law, and order, the sequence of cause and effect, but they have no meaning unless we place back of them an intelligent first cause. The materialism which ignores God as the great presiding spirit, leads to the denial of our own spiritual existence, in de- fiance of our own consciousness, and the many facts which can alone be accounted for on the admission of spiritual existence. In adopting the materialistic view we must not only dethrone God from his universe; debase our own nature by denying its higher princi- ples and bring it down to the level of the brute; repudiate a divine revelation, bearing such credentials of its heavenly origin, so ani- mating to our hopes, and so soothing to our sorrows ; but we must contradict our own prac- tice. Where else do we recognize matter with- out a maker ? Where, in art, is our admiration of^a structure so absorbing as to lose si^ht of