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 length been raised to that rank among the sciences, which it now so deservedly holds. I shall thus be able more distinctly to set before you Mr. Hunter's merits; to shew the important uses he made of the discoveries of others, and of his own; and to point out the advantages we have already derived, and shall yet continue to derive, from persevering in that safe road into which he has conducted us.

And first we must acknowledge our obligations, in common with those of the whole scientific world, to the talents and writings of Lord Bacon, whose wise and luminous mind so clearly perceived and effectually exposed, the folly of assuming an undemonstrated hypothesis, for