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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. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...presented to a common sense public, without such indispensible requisite for the attainment of their premeditated designs. As the ambition for popular eclat, however transient or unmerited, and an engrossing self-interest, are the impelling motives which influence the empirical pretender to construct his inventions, a common estimate of his intellect would naturally excite the expectation, that his fabric would be woven in conformity with that propensity of the mind, hertofore alluded to, upon which he must be presumed to be aware his success alone depends; and that it should be fortified by an ostensible armature of assumed facts, sufficient to subdue the natural skepticism of the mind, and delude to a surrender of its belief in the novelty presented. In such adaptations of its texture, and the necessary display of assumptions and pretended facts requisite to ensure a temporary success, the Hahnemanic theory is not defective, or unworthy of a comparison with its defunct predecessors. Nor will it appear that its author is undeserving a reputation for sagacity, and an intimate knowledge of ordinary human nature. For, while he has indulged a propensity for the novel and the marvelous, he has entrenched himself within a cloud of sublleties and mysticisms, more profoundly obscured by his reasonings and new-coined technicality. Whether true, therefore, or false, it may perhaps ever remain a perplexing paradox to ordinary reason and the senses, for the cause, that the objects and facts pretended to be embraced are too intangible, and too far beyond their precincts, to be made the subjects of their investigation. Such is the texture and adaptations of the Homoeopathic novelty, which evidently has beeu moulded in a conformity with the credulity of the...

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