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healing art? or those delivered in the universities, and elsewhere, to general science?

It is true, an illiterate rustic, who never entered a college of agriculture, can farm: and so can he converse, though he never went toschool. Just so a village doc- tor,—though he never walked the hospi- tals, nor attended the theatres, elaborato- ries, and lecture rooms of science,—can practise physic,—and with a certain de- gree of success. But why, in difficult cases, call in the physician? Because he has taken a more comprehensive view of the subject, and is better acquainted with the principles of the art itself, as well as with its assistant sciences; and has been habituated, in medical institutes, to more general and accurate practice.

The same illustration involves law and divinity. A merecountry-bred attorney can deal out law, and a field preacher di- vinity: yet law and divinity have long been taught in public institutes: ands I