Excerpt from The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation
When one has to maintain an argument, he will be listened to more willingly if he is known to be unbiassed, and to express his natural sentiments. The reflexions contained in these pages have not been suggested by the occasion of the Bridgewater Treatises, but arose, long ago, in a course of study, directed to other objects. An anatomical teacher, who is himself aware of the higher bearings of his science, can hardly neglect the opportunity which the demonstrations before him afford, of making an impression upon the minds of those young men who, for the most part, receive the elements of their professional education from him; and he is naturally led to indulge in such trains of reflexion, as will be found in this essay.
So far back as the year 1813, the late excellent vicar of Kensington, Mr. Rennell, attended the authors lectures, and found him engaged in maintaining the principles of the English school of Physiology, and in exposing the futility of the opinions of those French philosophers and physiologists, who represented life as the mere physical result of certain combinations and actions of parts, by them termed Organization.
That gentleman thought that the subject admitted of an argument which it became him to use, in his office of "Christian Advocate."
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