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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. It was some time before I could shake off the impression made on me by the words and the look of that dying man. It was not that my conscience upbraided me. What had I done ? Denounced that which I held, in common with most men of sense in or out of my profession, to be one of those illusions by which quackery draws profit from the wonder of ignorance. Was I to blame if I had refused to treat with the grave respect due to asserted discovery in legitimate science pretensions to powers akin to the fables of wizards ? was I to descend from the Academe of decorous science to examine whether a slumbering sibyl could read from a book placed at her back, or tell me at L what at that moment was being done by my friend at the Antipodes ? And what though Dr. Lloyd himself might be a worthy and honest man, and a sincere believer in the extravagances for which he demanded an equal credulityin others, do not honest men every day incur the penalty of ridicule if, from a defect of good sense, they make themselves ridiculous ? Could I have foreseen that a satire so justly provoked would inflict so deadly a wound? Was I inhumanly barbarous because the antagonist destroyed was morbidly sensitive ? My conscience, therefore, made me no reproach, and the public was as little severe as my conscience. The public had been with me in our contest?the public knew nothing of my opponent's death-bed accusations? the public knew only that I had attended him in his last moments?it saw me walk beside the bier that bore him to his grave?it admired the respect to his memory which I evinced in the simple tomb that I placed over his remains, inscribed with an epitaph that did justice to his unquestionable benevolence and integrity: ?above all, it praised the energy with which I set on foot..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217342315
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217342310
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr


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