On the fundamental laws of the organic molecular actions of the animal organism, identical with those of rational mechanics : an introductory lecture / by Samuel Jackson.

  • Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872.
Date:
1856
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    means for its complete institution to be begun. This I look upon as the proper task of the existing generation of scientific men, who need only a better training to make them adequate to it. If, from its complexity, physiology has been later than other sciences in its rational formation, it may reach its maturity more rapidly from the ground having been cleared by the pursuit of the anterior sciences. Many delays were occasioned in their case by transitory phases, which were not understood in the ear- lier days of positivity, and which need never again arrest expe- rienced investigation. It may be hoped that physiologists will spare the science the useless and humbling delay in the region of metaphysical hypothesis, which long embarrassed the progress of physics. When, last summer, I became acquainted with* Mr. Compte's admirable work, it was a source of encouragement to me to find the method of investigation, upon which I had ventured some twenty years ago, and had persisted in it, under disadvantageous circumstances, and much unfavorable criticism, was similar to the one advocated by that philosopher. It would afford me the highest gratification should I be able to indoctrinate you with the views and principles here advanced, so that after issuing from this school you may become known and recognized as scientific practitioners—the true interpreters of the laws and states of man's organism in health and disease, and the exponents of Positive Phi- losophy in Medicine.