This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...useful, capricious or elegant: hence, every new theory, whether of utility or monstrous deformity, is laboured into perfection. And, as amidst the boundless extravagance of this metropolis, nothing is lost, so among the still more extravagant imaginations of men, no idea which can be wrought into a mechanical, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...useful, capricious or elegant: hence, every new theory, whether of utility or monstrous deformity, is laboured into perfection. And, as amidst the boundless extravagance of this metropolis, nothing is lost, so among the still more extravagant imaginations of men, no idea which can be wrought into a mechanical, scientific, or literary commodity is suffered to float in vacuum, but is fashioned or tortured into profit. Hence, you find thousands of quacks of all descriptions, whose success gives them a degree of respectability, not a few of whom have probably become dupes to their own quackery." " Why, then sir, all mankind are quacks, for I have never known a man, who was not fully persuaded of many errors, in support of which, he would have set a contrary conviction at defiance." " Nay, sir, they are not quacks, until they expose their commodities to the public, or protrude their sentiments on mankind. If a man really believe he has discovered a panacea, he is not a quack if the secret remain in his own breast. You would not have thought Mahomet an impostor, if after his death you had found the Koran in his cabinet."--At this moment a quack advertisement was put into my hands--" There, sir, if that man should swallow all his own pills, he might be a fool, but would not be a quack." " With deference, sir, I object to Mahomet; why would he not have been an impostor?" " He would so, if mankind had been weak enough to have believed him: so would the author of the Arabian Night's Entertainments, so would Jacob Bhemen and Emanuel Swedenbourg have been impostors, so far as their works were thought to be real history or divine authority, rather than the recreations of fancy, or the impulses of delirium." We now a...
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