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160 who consequently know little of the merits of any, and are likely to adopt that course which promises most with the least means.

But we are told that the English people are so fixed in their habits and opinions, that it is very hard to introduce any new improvement among them; that they adhere with such tenacity to their established customs that it is only by very slow degrees that they can be induced to accept of newly discovered truths. They have had forty years to examine Homœopathy;—a whole generation has come and gone since its introduction, and we should think that they had had sufficient time to discover its merits if it had any. But is it a fact that this people is so obstinate and determined in rejecting every new thing that is offered them? How was it with the telegraph? How was it with the discovery of sulphuric ether as an anesthetic? and how has it been with all genuine discoveries and improvements? That people have always caught and adopted them with the utmost avidity. Every improvement in science or mechanics, no matter where it originated, as soon as it has touched