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Every effort of human ingenuity professing to remove or lessenpain and inconvenience, is, naturally enough, hailed with approbation,and the public require not so much to be aroused to estimatefully the advantages proposed, as to be guarded againstimplicit belief and heedless confidence in the value and importanceof the remedy. It is, however, of the utmost importance to beaccurately informed what kind of benefit we may fairly expectfrom the use of the given means, and to what extent this benefitmay be obtained; and yet the man who steps forward to statethis plainly and fairly, too often fails of the success which hisundertaking deserves. Experience proves that such endeavourshave been contemned by some, looked upon with cold indifferenceby others, and viewed with suspicion by nearly all. We are tooapt to suspect interested motives, to doubt the sincerity, andundervalue the abilities of men, who have devoted their lives, andthe force of their talents, to a particular pursuit; and then, asthough this cunning incredulity was closely allied to implicit credencein the wildest chimeras, we become ready listeners, andpassive victims, to pompous and plausible charlatans, who makethe larges

Author

George Cox

Publisher

Gutenberg

Published

2025

Language

EN