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PREFACE.

stop. These ought, therefore, to be esteemed as mere helps towards that perfection, which can only be approached by the active perseverance of individuals through progressive ages. If the laborious investigations, hitherto instituted, have produced incongruous opinions in physiology, let not their value be underrated, for it may reasonably be presumed, that the modifications of arrangement, which remain undiscovered, will harmonise the whole, and demonstrate the simplicity of unerring truth in this portion of the manifold and wonderful designs of the Creator.

6, TAVISTOCK SQUARE.
October, 1835.