An enquiry into the opinions, ancient and modern, concerning life and organization / by John Barclay, M.D.

  • Barclay, John, 1758-1826.
Date:
1822
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    a more unconscionable demand upon our credulity than the most abject votaries of superstition. Milton quoted, 230. More, Henry, quoted, 439. Morgan, Sir Thomas Charles. Living function depends on organized matter, and organized matter on living function. Seems to think with the vulgar, that what is not rehgion must be philosophy, 385, 386. Moses, 527. N Nature, 75. A vague term personified by materiaUsts, and invested with the physical and intellectual attributes of deity. Necessity, 86. A vague tenn. Personified by materialists, and em- ployed to direct nature, 49. Necessity metaphysical, physical, mathematical, moral, 86, 87. Needham, 222. Denies the pre-existence of germs. Maintains the existence of resisting, expansive, penetrating, and vegetative forces. Supposes them to act under the direction and influence of the Deity. Thinks that matter may be first organized, and then vitaU ized, until it arrive at the most perfect degree of animal vitahty. Confounds physical and metaphysical reasoning. Occasionally mis- takes ideal entities for real substances. An ingenious and learned, but not a perspicuous writer. Newton. Attraction may be performed by impulse, 297. His idea of the substance which he terms JEther, 301, n. Appeals to the struc- tures of animals, as proofs of an omnipresent and intelligent Deity, 302. Treats with contempt the practice of ascribing phenomena to certain specific occult qualities, 303. Observes that the main busi- ness of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, till we come to the very first cause, a cause, he says, which is certainly not mechanical, 305. Nothing proceeds from nothing. An axiom of the ancients founded on a quibble, 34. o Ocellus Lucanus, 38. The world eternal. One part above the moon without any change; the part below the moon subject to perpe- tual changes. These changes revolve in a circle. The Fates have drawn the line of demarcation between these two parts. Order of things, 34. Organism the cause of vital phenomena, 22, 394. The effect of vital phenomena, 31—33, 387, 390, &c. Organism and organization frequently confounded, 340, 349, n.