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30 tion, and its boundaries enlarged. But, before all, preeminently great, and proudly superior, was Bacon. His luminous mind has shed a light, that has clearly brought into view all the approaches to the truth of nature's form. Who ventures to connect himself with science, without drawing the pure waters of wisdom from the springs that he has discovered?

The glory that beams around the brow of Bacon, has, by its light, more distinctly marked the features of Hunter; who has exemplified in his labours, the enlightened principles of the great philosopher. Hunter undertook to clear the fertile fields of Philosophy and Pathology, of those weeds, that checked the growth of real science. In doing which, he has displayed intelligence in the design, comprehensiveness in the arrangement, minuteness in collecting particulars, closeness in the connection, magnificence in the accomplishment. In the