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lose the Professor’s chair.—He kept the chair, knowing well, that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;" but so worded his recantation, that nothing, in reality, was given up—the same was the case with Galileo. The crime of Galileo was, his applying geometry to the doctrine of motion, and making the evidence of the Copernican system more sensible, viz.—that the Sun is the centre of the World, and immoveable, and that the Earth moves even with a diurnal motion,—which system is now held as orthodox over the enlightened world.
"Serene philosophy,
Effusive source of evidence and truth?
Without thee, what were urenlighten’d man?
A savage roaming through the woods and wilds,
Rough clad, devoid of every finer art
And elegance of life."
Having now gone through the ancient and modern Philosophers, whose opinions all tend to show that, the same demonstrable truths which point out the Soul in Man, establishes the Souls of Brutes, &c.
For the further proof that Brutes have Souls, and are not only an emanation from the Deity, but under his peculiar care, just as much as Man, we will apply to the Scriptures, as a winder up of the subject.
