An enquiry into the probability and rationality of Mr. Hunter's theory of life, being the subject of two anatomical lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1814
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    losophical turn of mind which exempts them from vulgar prejudices, and that no Theory appears to them satisfactory, neither do they propose any for our adoption. Thinking being inevitable, we ought, as I said in the beginning, to be solicitous to think correctly. Opinions are equally the natural result of thought, and the cause of conduct. If errors of thought terminated in opinions, they would be of less consequence ; but a slight de- viation from the line of rectitude in thought, i r may lead to a most distant and disastrous aberration from that line in action. I own I cannot readily believe any one who tells me, he has formed no opinion on subjects which must have engaged and interested his attention. Persons both of sceptical and credulous characters form - opinions, and we have in general some principal opinion, to which we connect the rest, and to which we make them I