Outlines of a new system of philosophy, being a view of the system of sciential medicine, or, Medicine (and all human knowledge) as proveable as geometry / by Thomas Eden.

  • Eden, Thomas
Date:
1834
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Credit: Outlines of a new system of philosophy, being a view of the system of sciential medicine, or, Medicine (and all human knowledge) as proveable as geometry / by Thomas Eden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    guides the career of every particle of that dust which he has mingled with the breath of life.* 2. He who gave to substance life, gave to man the mind; and as the living substance has, so has the thinking mind, its source, and growth, and means, and time of growth appoint- ed. He who has decreed that' the eagle, which soars above the winds, and the while with pene- trating eye surveys through clouds the objects of its extended and still extending prospect : He who has destined the swiftest and mightiest inhabitant of air to spring, by slow incubation, from the mo- tionless and inert shell, and in its maturity of power to owe its strength and fieetness, and the extended prospects of its highest soarings, to the growth (by measured means and times) appointed to that feeble nursling which had its feebleness protected and its horizon bounded by the narrow confines of a pa- rent's nest: He— the God of all—has alike decreed that the intellect of man—sudden to appreciate, and strong to comprehend—shall spring from a like feeble and embryo beginning : and that the mighty mind, which soars beyond all mundane elements, and through the mists of sense and error, sees clearly the objects of its extended and still extend- ing prospect, shall (in its maturity of power) owe its extended views and highest soarings to the growth (by measured means and times) appointed to that weak intellect whose widest views and highest soarings were bounded by the narrow con- * And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living* soul.—Gen. h. 7.
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