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Excerpt from Prof. J. King's Introductory Lecture
Or, can we believe it to exist in that system which obstinately. Adheres to the assertion, that by the millionth part of an atom of some or any medical substance, the constitution of man is to be renovated, and purified from disease?
Or, can we believe it to exist in any system, which, after hav ing reared a splendid superstructure upon a tottering foundation, closes all the avenues which might inform the intelligence of other truths, and with the illiberal spirit of despotism, ostracises all who dare to dream beyond its temple of imagined perfection?
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