A very eminent and pious philosopher, considered these phenomena, as the operation and agency of God, moving and directing his own universe to the final issue and grand results of the eternal Judgment. This, by the way, is a very old opinion, and has been beautifully embodied by the poet, in these celebrated lines:

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body, nature is, and God the soul:

That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same,
Great in the earth as in the etherial frame;
Lives in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees;
Lives through all life, extends through all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent;
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part,
As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart;

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns.

To him no high, no low, no great, no small;

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all!"

This is not the doctrine of SPINOZA, who made God the soul of the world; but the pious doctrine of a universal providence, and the omnipresence of the Deity in the government of the world. Look at the smallest plant or insect, you behold him there, in his matchless wisdom and sustaining power-forming the mechanism and moving the vitality of a creature so small and inconsiderable, and apparently worthless in the great sum of things. The Psalmist took a most striking and comprehensive view of this sublime and glorious theme. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there! If I make iny bed in hell, behold thou art there!! If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light round about me!"

This was the true sentiment and doctrine of the ancient philosophers-the presence and superintendance of the Deity every where. They were not Atheists-although the miserable SPINOZA wrested their doctrine to his own malignant and deadly purpose. But he might well do that, when he turned the Jewish Scripture to the same account--for he was a Jew, and deeply read in the old testament. But the wasp can extract poison from the flower: So did his perverted soul draw death from the wells of salvation!

As the doctrine of life and health cannot be known by reasoning a priori; but must be deduced from experience and observation, some very eminent men have thought that its laws and principles should be divided in a different manner from that of the scholastic mode: That so many divisions of the theory of life and disease, which have prevailed since the days of GALEN, have not only embarrassed but bewildered the subject; and that the laws and principles, therefore, should be divided in a different manner-1st, that the human blood is the recipient and vehicle of heat and life to the several parts; 2d, from many experiments, pure air appears to be the pabulum of irritability; for the absence of pure air destroys life sooner than the defect of any other natural substance; 3d, the next in importance to the ani

mal economy, seems to be the nervous fluid, or the medulla of the brain and spinal marrow; for they have all the same nature and origin; 4th; sensibility, residing in the organ of sense, connecting the mind with the external world."

All this is very fine, but has still less affinity to the proposition, that all diseases are curable by steam, Indian tobacco, brandy and 'No. 6,' than to the intimation that Thomson was commissioned by Heaven, to give a revelation to man on the effects of those renowned agents. That our reverend professor, at least does not discourage the idea, that his magnus apollo was thus sent, may be collected from the following

extracts:

"Dr. THOMSON had this opinion from the effects he himself had seen; and his Narrative is convincing from its very form and features. He tells us he was illiterate, and he was poor; oppressed by a young, helpless, and sickly family; the practice pursued did not agree with their constitutions, nor diseases; he was, from nature, inclined to try the virtue and operation of plants; the gift of healing, it was impressed upon his mind, God had given to him; necessity, when his child was dying, forced him to try; he was successful; success encouraged him to go on; his neighbors applied to him in the hour of calamity; he relieved their complaints, his time was consumed, his reward nothing; he consulted with his wife and friends, whether he should abandon the practice, or abandon his farm and yield to these pursuits; he was counselled to follow his own inclination. Still believing he had a call from Providence, and a degree from the God of nature, he commenced, in form, the healing art. His cause and claims are before the world; laid before the Government of his country; his remedies submitted to the experience of scientific men, and eminent physicians; tried by a jury of his country for his cures, and even perjury could not substantiate a plea against him! This is something very different from all the pretensions to the healing art ever yet set up in the world.

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"This new practice has this vast and high prerogative, it cannot be wrong, and will not kill; no mistakes are fatal here; no unexpected and sudden death when you think the patient is just about to do well. know a physician who put his patient through a course of mercury; in the evening he said he was doing well-he called in the morning, and inquired for his patient, and was informed he was dead! He was struck dumb!-looked on the lifeless corpse, and departed without uttering a single word, with a load of wo upon his heart, that I would not have suffered for a mountain of gold! Yet he could not be blamed; he practised according to his education, and was utterly deceived in the operation of his medicines. He thought they were curing the patient; but alas! they were digging his grave!

The power of prejudice and the empire of pride, may prevail for a eason; but the soul will at last arise and re-assert the majesty of her

own nature, and shew unto the world, that "there are gifts, beyond the power of education and knowledge, which learning cannot bestow." Learning will neither make a great man, nor a great physician, but it will highly advance the usefulness of those who are great by nature; who have received the patent of their dignity from God Almighty. Dr. Waterhouse said of Dr. Thompson, he had taken a degree from the school of nature-a diploma from her unerring hands. The very course of that education to which Dr. Waterhouse has so handsomely alluded, was calculated to instruct the author of the new system in useful remedies, and deliver his mind from every bias but the force of experience and truth. With a mind entirely uninfluenced by all authority, unmoved and unobstructed by any thing which had gone before him, he possessed au advantage which, I am persuaded, none ever possessed who were educated in the schools--where we are introduced to the fellowship of wisdom by the authority of books and professors.

"It is impossible for the most independent mind to perfectly retain its freedom; it will insensibly bow to the opinions of some celebrated or splendid authority. In after life, indeed, and by much experience, some superior souls are enabled to cast off the shackles of education; but they are the fewest number of that mighty host, which walk forth from the schools of the world, to propagate the errors of their predecessors. Dr. THOMSON had nothing of all this to encounter; he was led by the hand of nature; and without being aware of the fact, be was travelling in the path of the Indian, the German and Celtic doctors--the doctors of antiquity, who without complaint or failure, practised on the unnumbered millions, who overturned the empire of the Romans; and still practice on all the nations of the Gentile world. He is, therefore, now a professor in the most ancient and extensive medical school of the world. A school, not on the decline and about to perish--but one beginning to revive-to put on strength-to extend her conquests, until the learned and the unlearned shall be gathered under the shadow of her wings, and triumph in the splendor of her acquisitions. And we see the dawn of this glorious era, which shall transform the face of the world."

To these flowing paragraphs we shall add from doctor Thomson, for the benefit of 'all whom it may concern,' the following important recipe—

"TO MAKE CHICKEN BROTH.

"Take a chicken and cut it in pieces; put the gizzard in with it, opened and cleaned, but not peeled. Boil it till the meat drops from the bone. Begin to give the broth as soon as there is any strength in it; and when boiled eat some of the meat. Let it be well seasoned. This may be given instead of the milk porridge, and is very good for weak patients, particularly in cases of the dysentery.

"When the operation of medicine is gone through, I have said that the patient may eat any kind of nourishing food his appetite should crave; but the best thing is, to take a slice of salt pork bailed, or beef-steak, well done, and eat it with pepper sauce; or take cayenne, vinegar, and salt, mixed together, and eat with it, which is very good to create an appetite and assist the digesture."

Recurring to 'orator' Robinson, we shall, for the present, dismiss both him and his coadjutors, with the closing sentence of his last lecture, and another extract from the DUN

CIAD:

"And let it be remembered, if this system of practice is true, it will have the peculiar blessing of the Almighty upon its side; because it brings the power, the benefits, and the beneficial results of a safe medicine, within the reach of the poor; into their dear distressed families, who often perish for the lack of the means to procure medical aid! This single benefit cannot fail of drawing down from heaven the peculiar blessing of Him, who bowed his majesty and left his throne, and veiled his glories, to enter the world, and preach "the gospel to the poor!"

"Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands
"Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands.
"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

"How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!

"NOTE.-J. Henley the Orator: he preached on the Sundays on Theological matters, and on the Wednesdays, upon all other scienEach auditor paid one shilling. He declaimed some years against the greatest persons."

ces.

"This man had a hundred pounds a year given him for the secret service of a weekly paper of unintelligible nonsense, called the HypDoctor."

It appears from the Lectures, that in the state of NewYork the steamers and the steamed, have combined, in petitioning the legislature for permission to carry on the trade. In Ohio a similar memorial was presented to the last session of the general assembly, and referred to the committee on the Penitentiary. A notice so flattering, has encouraged the 'gifted' to renew their applications, and that we may not be chargeable with indifference to their interests, we shall insert an exact copy of one of them, lately transmitted to us by a respectable correspondent, who informs us, that it was handed, by the author, to a member of the legislature, to be laid before that honorable body, by the Governor:

"Sir Honorable and respectable Alen Trimble Governor of the State of Ohio I envocate my earnest prayers to you and your predesesors in office to Jere McClain Sec. And vice president and state prothonotry praying to giving you a minute introduction of my dolorous situation and awful calamities difficulties dangers and distructions that I have traversed and still hangs over my head clouds of danger and dorkness unless I can corespond to your feelings the necessity of your

great and important assistance to my deseres requests colls and prayers praying that you would consider my inexpresable necessities and grant to me Doc. Uri Martin of Morgan county Ohio a licence to lawfully authorize me to practice medicines of every System agreeable to the Laws of Ohio And conscientiously discharge my duty in every actuating Sphere of Allusion in alphabetical or syntactical or electrical or physical or mental or surgical or astronomical or plisingnomical or medical Terms or words or sentiments or sentences or physical and surgical modes customs rudiments and laws that when I am contiously safe that I may be lawfully safe in adminestering any medicenes or using any means to restore them that is deficient in health agreeable to the dictates of my Judgment and concience and agreeable to my titled systamatici stile and agreeable to my epithetical affirmed advertised notification to the State house door Ohio and to the United States house door that I would devote my time and talents impartially to the practice of Physic in every shape under the well adapted systems and long attentive studies and satisfactory experience I Doc Uri Martin Morgan Co. have counseled with Dan Martin and Calvin Martin of the same county and William Granville Capt of Mead to Belmont co. & Will. McAma Gospel preacher of Liberty Licking Co. I pray that the law builders of state of Ohio may licenc me with preveliged Cognized Diploma agreeable to the statutes of the United States of America and under this title Archeotybe Medical botonical Society."

Leaving the 'gifted' brotherhood, to work out the Millenium with 'No. 3' feather few, and clover heads, a 'CURE for CANCERS, SORE LIPS, and OLD SORES,' we shall proceed to a passing notice of a few more of the people's doctors; and first, of doctor Swaim--whose 'MEDICINE may without extravagance,' as he himself informs us, 'be considered as a sacred boon to the afflicted.' Deserving, however, as it may be of this disinterested commendation, it cannot supersede doctor Thomson's materia medica, as it is infallible in no more than the following meagre catalogue, of the evils which flesh is heir to:

"Scrofula or King's Evil, Ulcerated Sore Throat, long standing Rheumatic Affections, Diseases of the Skin, White Swelling and Diseases of the Bones, and all cases generally of an Ulcerous character; Chronic and Nervous diseases arising in debilitated constitutions; but more especially for Syphilis, or affections arising therefrom, as Ulcers of the Larynx, Throat and Nose, Nodes, &c. and those evils occasioned by an improper use of mercury, &c. &c.—It has been found to be a most useful spring and fall alternative for debilitated and bilious persons; it is also beneficial in dyspeptic and nervous complaints, and most internal diseases where the lungs and chest are supposed to be affected," &c.