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CASE OF HILL v. PHILP. (To the Editor of...
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FB £ NCH ADT 7 LTEBATIOXS . I # B adulteration of bitter beer , we are informed by the Medical Times arid Gazette , is carried on in a very large way in Paris , for the English market—a very serious adulteration , too , when it is called " Strychnine . " Adulteration for Paris is impossible , . they say , from the . strictness of police precautions . . ¦ Yat -what is the present Napoleonic era but a supreme adulteration , in which coup-d ' e " tat , centralization , falsified birth , ¦ ' capote grise , chapeau tricorne , and other poisonous elements , are largely mixed . W . ell ! strychnine vice pale ale is bad enough ; but of the two evils , we prefer the adulterated beer to the adulterated Empire .
And strychnine might be a quieter engine than soldiers and guns for the next coup-d' 6 tat . Government , they say , has " discovered" this manufacture : when a pickpocket is afraid of detection , he runs , and calls out " stop thief !"
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There is no learned man but will , confess lie hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , ifbe profitable for Vij-m to read , why should it-not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . —Milton .
Science Ajnd Scripture. " Newspapers, We...
SCIENCE AJND SCRIPTURE . " Newspapers , we are told , are not the proper place for religion : we presume to think otherwise ; wherever we cast our eyes we see social life inextricably interwoven with religion , which is everywhere an animating impulse or a formidable obstacle . In science , in art , in literature , in morals , in politics , wo can sound the bottom nowhere without touching religion . "—( Loader , Feb . 14 , p . 156 . ) Sib , —Aware as I am that the critic of the press , like the head of the state , is usually considered irresponsible , and that his decisions , if not received as true and binding , must at least be received in silence , I will , nevertheless , trust to the expansive spirit of
the Leader , to " rule an exception" in reference to the criticism , headed as above . First , because the subject embruces no class question , but one of intense and incalculable interest to humanity itself ; and secondly , because a conclusion is arrived at , without every argument on the positive side being exhausted . Dr . Pye Smith , and the critic of last week , both appear to assume that there are only three ways of regarding the Book of Genesis , ( and of course other parts of scripture ); 1 st , either as a positive and literal account of the mode of creation;—2 nd , as an account of creation " conveyed in expressions comporting with the knowledge of the ago in which they were delivered ; " or , 3 rd , as a metaphorical , or rather indefinite history , in which
the expressions relating to time and place may be bent and twisted to suit any theories or subsequent requirements of science . Dr . Pye Smith very properly rejects tho let and 3 rd , and the critic , I believe , as properly , all three , leaving a fourth explanation , which he thinks inevitable , and honestly states as follows : — " That it is tho work of a Jewish author , whose conceptions of tho universe I see to bo those of barbarian ignorance , and whose conceptions of tho Doity are repugnant to my moral sense . " The final conclusion being , that " tho explanations of natural phenomena given by Scripture , and those given by Hoionce are irreconcilable—science or Scripture , choose between them , for you cannot ask tho world to yield obedience to both . "
Now , sir , , that there is yet another explanation possible , which , while leaving full and undisputed scopo to science and its positive teachings , tends to place tho Scriptures in a new and inconcoivably grander light , than as a text-book of geology , or oven anthropology , and to demonstrate that , deep within its contents lie tho foundations of a now science or philosophy , as positive as that geology and astronomy which have successully undermined tho strongholds of dogmatic theology , 1 hope to bo able to prove to those of my readers who reject no idea becaiwo it in novol or startling , but only
when , after examination , ' they have proved it to be illogical , and without data for its support . The position , then , I am about to assume with regard to the Scriptures is briefly as follows- ' The Bible is a book written , not to throw light upon " the early history of this globe or the material universe , not to explain successive geological periods , or even the natural creation of mankind , but that under physical terms and allegorical expressions its purpose is to develope the history of the spiritual states of man , i . e ., theprocess by which " Adam , " or the man , becomes elevated from the lowest degree of natural perception and brute instinct to the lofty realization of the religious life—the life of truth
and love . That the first eleven chapters of Genesis contain the psychical history of the first generations of men , as they became successively removed from the shnple doing of good to the pursuit of truth * and finally the rejection of both , when the flood , meaning the end of the first church , took place , and a new phase of religious life commenced , and so on , till the literal advent of Abraham , where the real history commences ; but ( and this is most important , ) without arresting this inner sense , which goes on simtiltaneovsly with , and contained in , the representative policy of the Jewish nation , and the dicta of the prophets , till Jesus Christ appeared , to found another church or receptive class of
men . I am aware , sir , that these statements do not necessarily carry conviction of their truth , or constitute their own argumentSj but in a subsequent letter I shall adduce , not only evidence from ancient history , and the known laws of mental development and philology , to prove that , in , any case , the above view would be the most rational and probable as to the nature of these
ancient sacred writings , but from the existence of a great law of interpretation , applicable , without exception , to every portion of Scripture , discovered a century ago , that it is possible to extract from then contents a psychical philosophy so tangible , so elevated , and withal so applicable to every phase of humanity , that the mind unconsciously feels that the wisdom and prescience which created" it , must inhere in God . Feancis RFDAir . London , March 8 , 1852 .
Case Of Hill V. Philp. (To The Editor Of...
CASE OF HILL v . PHILP . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) gjB )—in a paragraph respecting this case , which appeared in the Leader of the 21 st ult ., it is stated of the plaintiff" From Dr . Philp ' s he was' removed to Northampton , and placed under the care of Dr . Nesbitt , who testified to the unsoundness of his mind . " This is so contrary to the fact , and so liable to operate prejudicially towards me with many of your readers , that I may confidently rely upon your candour and fair dealing to correct the mistake , now that it is pointed out .
The evidence given by Dr . Nesbitt , as reported in the Times newspaper of the 17 th February , is" The plaintiff was in good bodily health when he came , and always appeared consistent and rational . Tho defendant said he would write and explain his case to me , but ho did not . The plaintiff was not dangerous . The local board investigated his case , and recommended his discharge . Ho had free ingress and egress at Northampton , and walked ubout as ho pleased . He corresponded with bis friends . When he left he was in the same state as when he came . I thought him fit to he discharged . "
The reports of Dr . Nisbett ' s testimony in tho Morning Chronicle of the 18 th , and in tho Morning Herald of tho 19 th , are to tho same effect . Surely this is something widely different from having " testified to tho unsoundness of his mind \" Tho description of the patient , or victim , in Dr . Nisbett ' s case-book , will still further elucidate the affair : —¦ " GisNjmAi Health . —Very good in all respects ; is stout , strong , and muscular ; hair grey , senses natural , oats and sloops well . *? Habits . —Quiet , clean , and decorous . " Conversation . — 'Free , intelligent , and
consecutive , but formal and precise . * . " DisrosiTioir . —^ -Ejisily irritated and fretted by trifles ; f very impatient of restraint . * ' Remgion *—On ' this subject ho is reserved , and dislikes being questioned . " Education . —Has a cultivated mind , and his pursuits are of tho higher intellectual order . * Tho two latter , under tho particular cireumstancoa , booauso it was known that ovory word was liablo to bo misunderstood or misrepresented . f If this is true , the unjust and prolongocl confinement would furniah ft sufficient reason ; but loss of liberty is not a trifle .
-Mbsttai , PEOtxiAEiTiES . -Great dislike of ta gmfcon , * and very desirous of explaining awav « S " allegations brought against him . f y ' *^ " . PASs « ws . ^ -Strong . Has a great hatred of hi * former residence , and a very persecuting spirit toward the proprietors of Kensington House ; hisTacrimom ^ this respect is intense . . ym „ « Affections . —Warnu Is . Wy fond of hw « , * and children . " It will be acknowledged on all hands that this is not exactly the description to be expected of one sent to be confined as a lunatic ! And since it is shown bv Dr . Nisbettfs evidence that he always found me " coif sistent and rational / ' that the local board who investigated the case recommended my discharge ; that he also thought me fife to be discharged , and that when I left I was in the same state as when I arrived —it fottoips that , he . considers I ought to have been dis ~ charged previousl y to being sent to Northampton Hence , however desirable it may be to love our enemies better than our friends , I was not likely to entertain a very affectionate feeling towards the proprietor of Kensington House , who , haying long deprived me of my liberty tinder very aggravated and painM restrictions , had consigned me over . t £ the commencement of a new term of captivity , which , though divested of the enormities which characteri 2 ed Kensington House , was still felt to be very galling . \ . ¦ ' The proceeding becomes the more obviously unjust , when it is explained that niy brother and my sister , one of whom has known me for forty , and the other for fifty years , gave evidence not only that they never had occasion to doubt my sanity , nor did they ever hear it called in question until after I had been placed in confinement , but that when they visited me at Kensington House , eight months before my removal to Northampton ^ they found me perfectly sane , and were desirous that I should leave with them . Two members of the medical profession , Mr . Bird and Mr . Hare , also testify t 6 having visited me on more than one occasion , niariy months before I left Kensington , and finding in me not the slightest reason vp-hy'I should not be" liberated , nor though - they had been acquainted with me the one six , the other fifteen years , had they ever discovered any manifestations of insanity previously to my illness in May , 1850 ; whilst the two medical gentlemen who certified me when I was conveyed to the asylum , admit that I was then under the influence of an opiate ; moreover , one of those who had known me intimately for five or six years , acknowledges that previously to that day he never saw the slightest reason to suspect my sanity , and the other certifier had never seen me until called in on that occasion , during a period of alarm , when he found me ill in bed , after having taken the opiate . Your obedient servant , James Him . London , March ^ nd , 1852 .
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Mibabeatt . —Mirabeau was indeed a great sinner j he was possessed by a devil , but ho had a very great nature , and there is more joy in heaven over one such sinner , than over a hundred just men . He was too high above his nation , like Carnot , the only two great men of the Revolution . His eloquence carried away the people , and they fancied that they admired Uim ; just as the loud noise of a full orchestra seizes hold ot the common people , who would have remained perfectly indifferent to the music itself , performed on less noisy instruments . Such sinners excite a peculiar kintt « veneration in me , though most truly they do not now tho highest place . There is something y 0 * , " * " ^ and over that wo can only vfQQ ^—Niehuhr ' s Uje w Letters . . Books tq READ . —Above all , read fcivy again « k again . I prefer him infinitely to Tacitus , and £ » # to find that Vobh is of the same opinion , ine ™ " other author who exercises such a gentle ucsr over the eyes and oars of his readers , as Livy ft moi g Romans and Thucydides among the Greeks . . «"™ ' calls Liyy ' s fulneas « sweet as milk , " ^ cl J ^ l « indescribable : " in my judgment , too , « f - cd often oven surpasses that of Cicero . Oho 1 ° ™? JJllcct , son genre-hl possessed infinite acutoneg " ^ wit ; Ufaisait du g & nie aveo de I espnt , uko ^ but ho attempted a richness of stylo , . tor * v ^ lacked that heavenly repose of tho int 0 " ^ ' monjJ Livy , like Homer , must have possessed , »""> . . - the moderns , VfaOon and Garvo in no common «* Niebuhr ' s Life and Letter * . __ — -- —
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27031852/page/16/
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