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HULL LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL

SOCIETY.

(From the 'Hull Packet.)
The Members of the above Society met on
Friday evening at the Exchange, when a paper
on " The Human Structure," was read by Mr.
George Fielding, Jun. Our limits will not
permit us to insert the whole of this interesting
essay. We shall, however, extract a few of the
most striking passages, in the conviction, that
they cannot fail of proving acceptable to most of
our readers.

Mr. Fielding commenced by remarking, that,
in the Human Structure, a most extensive;
fertile, and interesting field for observation and
enquiry was presented to our view ; and, although
the tracks might have been well beaten, and the
roads often travelled before, the landscape re-
mained as rich and tho views as beautiful and
diversified as ever. As the botanist, in the
centre of a tastefully disposed garden, looks
around him through the luxuriant beds and
winding walks, and perceives the admirable
chain of connection, existing between each class
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this bond of union, depends on a hidden,
and mysterious agency, a link indissoluble,
but by death itself. In the powerfully emphatic
language of Scripture, " We are fearfully and
wonderfully made !" Few have the least know-
ledge how wonderfully we are made, and those
few whose knowledge is the most extended, will
perhaps be the readicet to confess its imperfec-
tion. There are times when gaunt disease stalks
like a spectre through the land, visiting alike
the splendid palace, and the humble cottage,
levelling alike the peer and peasant; blighting
with its baleful breath the bloom of beauty's
cheek, and banishing the balmy slumbers of the
aged and infirm. These are the times when the
gay, the grave, the strong, and the weak, are
alike taught to feel how frail and uncertain is
the tenure of human existence. Yet the prose-
cution of studies connected with the structure of
man had been pronounced dangerous, and their
discussion sedulously avoided. The idea of in-
fidelity and materialism being necessarily con-
nected with the study of anatomy, and of course
attaching to all medical men, had been widely
disseminated and credited. It is inexplicable
why this should be the case. The simple ac-
knowledment of imperfection in the science,
after so many ages of unremitted investigation,
afforded, in the opinion of the author of this
paper, an insurmountable barrier to the proud
yet grovelling materialist ! Who is there (writes
Mr. F.) that, admires not the human eye ? who
is there that feels not its fascinating influence,
when it beams with intelligence from the soul of