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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reprodu!^ en un seul cliche, 11 est filmA i partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche h droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 Si§e« PATRONIZED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE ElBL OF BALHOUSIJL. ^i^^ ^;^'^ u-^m^r^ ^Vij H respect, presents to those Ladies and Gen. Ucmen who honour him with their attention-^the fol- lowing PROSPECTUS OF LECTURES. " See this day, I have set hejore thee, life andgood-^and death and evil.'' — Deut. xxx. 15. " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit.'' — Col. ii. 8. LECTURE FIRST. _ General view of the continually decomposible ingre- dients of the present material system— Experiments on some substances, in support of the idea of the Indis- tructabiJity of matter— Remarks on the Atmospheric and Solar influence—daseous FJuids— Life- Stimuli— the notions wherein Religion, Health, or practical principles are concerned, will be introduced in their place. LECTURE SECOND. Doctrine of Plants and other living organized bodies, mm 2 continued from the sacred morning of Creation, seem- ingly still in the same state of perfection as when they proceeded from the finger of the Almighty. Man seems an exception to original perfection— hence a fall has taken place — Philosophy of the Moss tribes. Benifi- cent influence of Plants in correcting the atmosphere. Plants exhibit the phenomena of Life, Organization, Irritability, continuation of species— but no conscious- ness, no spipt, do not sleep, &c. Integuments of Plants, Fruits, Roots, &c. explained as preserving their substance from decomposition, wisdom of this, Medical remarks on usmg coarhe bread, skins of Fruit, &c.Brute tribes con- sidered in thfeit arborescent analogy, compared with plants— they exhibit the phenomena of Life, Organiza- tion. Irritability, continuation of species— consciousness from possessing a spirit— they sleep— possess innate i- deas and language— are exempted from many human evils— rarely blind or deaf for life ; never fatuitous, never mad— distinction between madness and hydro- phobia—cases of Hydrophobia mentioned — treatment — proposed experiment on brutes— on criminals sen- tenced to death, &c — Wisdom of Deity in bestowing a peculiar structure on the eyelids of quadrupeds and birds, which nestle, by which means they are sealed up for a few days, thus forming a habit of domestication— on the contrary some are born with open eye, and fol- low the Dani.— PecMliar character of the Dove produc- ed in pairs— hence the emblem of chastity and fidelity. Brute* are directed by their organf— specimens shewn — do not improve by old age, &c.— Wisdom of God, in the Herbiferous, Omniyerpus, and carniverous animals the )a§t and insects prevent the danger of putresant matter. tECTURES THIRD and FOURTH. Man a Trinity — defination of Life— organs — Soul Passions — Appetites defined — the delight our adorable Creator has annexed to ' the duties required, occasion excess^— Intemperance, the excess of virtuous indul- gence, &c.r— Contrast of the organs of life which never sleep ; and those actuated by the Soul which ought to sleep the third part of existence. In Gfod we live, move, and have our being, explained from anatomical and physiological data — -Man compared in his general Analogy respecting Plants and other Animals — ^some general principles are indispensable to all organised living agents, as Arbourescence, Vessels, Lungs', Stom- ach, &c.— the wisdom and power of God evinced in the peculiar deviations which distinguish Individual species —Each creature is equally felicitous in what they knoiwr and are ignorant of, man excepted.— Instanced in the solicitude of the Babe.— Directions for Mothers— no dandling, &c. — Natural and oral language in rearing the Infant.-^Cunning of the babe in acquiring his own wishes with foolish parents. — Our ever blessed Lord sets up a child as the emblem of Docility— hence the accountability to God for offspring. How, physically and intellectually, without God's immediate interference^ the sin or virtue of the parent is visited on the third and fourth generation. Universalism and Uniteri^nism — the System of the world— Empires, families and in- dividuals, are furnished with a constitution from the finger of the Creator, which occasion their safety in tl^e path of efficiency, or their destruction in the avenue of transgression. Our heaven or hell commence in this life, and the body is so exquisitely constructed, tha|; y^henever we eat, drink, or do any thin^ unconnected. »;^*o? z.°'8:?' tni rts "' ■"• -; addicted .n^"'"' "'"•"'^ stimuli-Man the only anh^ai addicted to the excessive use of stimuli— Three soecies iu^nt^f-'^-^'"' '^^"^ *« phenomena of oJgans ™1he'"hnT'.''l'P""''' ''"' ^ '^^ by Soul, not God or His Worship-Hence the bliss o? Blvelati-on LECTURE Sth, ;r^e„ Ge«rfmf„ „„der 20 «ear* r»o D .,,"4 °S« cannot be admitted • ":.T. ^^'^"^^ ^^Me diseases, their causes and «ure, published in London, and not seeminX b the posses sion of Medical Gentlemen. ^"""6'^ "» '"^ • The am never Mad-AdulU only experience Madness.