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ranges from 23 per cent. its maximum, to mini,
mum ; thus preserving in that island also its numerical
sunerioritv in statistics. S. J. Prescod, ESQ.. the vice-

president, also addressed the assembly, in an eloquent and

)oriunity afforded by this meeting to say a few

cords on the ohjeot of t

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too much space to follow this learned gentleman through
the whole of his lucid and interesting remarks.) At the
outset he would observe, that it had been suggested that
there might be some possible objection to such an associa-
tion. It was generally thought that for almost any other

object—for po-litical reform; commercial enterprise, or
benevolent, charitable, or philanthropic purposes, in fact,
for any purpose that could be conceived of, or that men
could concern themselves about—persons like the great
majority of those connected with and originating this
institution—unprofessional men as they were—might be
•fully justified in associating themselves together; but in
a question coneer • g and health they should not
interefere, but leave it altogether in the hauls of the doc-
tors. Those holding this view would no doubt urge it
against the pretensions of the promoters of this enterprise,
that this was a matter which did not concern other than
medical men. What, for instance, had he, the editor of a
newspaper, to do with systems of medicine and a matter
of medical reform ? Now, if he were guaranteed against

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point of view, from which human concerns were for
the most part regarded, the objection might be admitted
to be well founded; but as this could, obviously, not be,
he had the most intense interest in the success of hommo.

patty, and the consequent preservation of health and life.
He then drew a vivid sketch of the two prevailing systems,
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refilled, elegant, and tasteless dose of hoinceopathy. lie
asked, was not that a boon to be desired P Many people,
he knew, treated this as a capital delusion, and thought it
a proof of folly to take the trouble even to inquire about
it. But wherefore ? Was there anything in the proposi-
tion itself unreasonable? Look around, and behold all
creation governed by laws. Chance directed nothing.
God, the Creator, was not the God of disorder, but the
God of order, and therefore the God of law ; and to law
' he had made all things subject, from the dust beneath our
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splendour ; and was it at all conceivable, could•we recon-

cile it with all we thus saw around us of Hod's creation,
to suppose that the cure of disease, the restoration of
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exception to this rule of divinely appointed law? That
this, of all things, should be left to chance, with nothing
to guide us but our own rude conjectures of the possible
right ? All reason was in favour of a law of healing, and
the accidental discovery of that law by Hahnemann
revolted nothing but the increasing prejudices of those
who preferred darkness to light, and discord to harmony
Magna est veritas, et prrevalebit ; but, as Bishop Horne
says, truth is a guest that often brings those who enter-
tain her into trouble; and although the days of persecu-
tion are past, the rack at rest, and the fires of Smithfield
quenched for ever, the world has engines yet to persecute
the man who goes about to mend it.
"We are modest enough to assert that in the matter of
homeopathy, much as it has hitherto been maligned, its

successiuny comnated will show. The allopathic proles•
sion are not to arrogate to themselves the authority of
infallible justice in this ease. 'The profession, the ortho.
dox men, arc only the accusers ; honiceopathists the

defendants, the public the jury; and experience the judge,
will decide. After all, let success be the test. Home°,

pathy has raised itself into a topic of the day ; let it b(
investigated in a spirit and manner suited to the subject
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that from a smal:
beginning it has steadily increased, and each year has

given to it additional strength and vigour. Its course ha,
been onward, in spite of all opposition ; it has presented
an unbroken front, it has not made a compromise with
allopathy, and is fast becoming established throughout the
civilised world." •

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