{"product_id":"2940013900547","title":"Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen [Illustrated]","description":"• Table of contents with working links to chapters is included\u003cbr\u003e• The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• Illustrated book\u003cbr\u003eThe great success and correspondent utility of D'Israeli's \"Curiosities of Literature,\" have induced me to add to the ample harvest of that ingenious writer a few gleanings from another field. They may not afford the same amusing variety to the general reader, but they may tend to draw some attention to many important points that affect the chequered lot of mankind. The progress that every science has rapidly made during the last half-century has been astounding, and seems to have kept pace with those struggles of the intellectual faculties to burst from the shackles of prejudice and error that had ignobly bound them for so many ages. Groping in darkness, man sought the light, but unfortunately the sudden refulgence at times dazzled instead of guiding his steps in the pursuit of truth, and led him into errors as perilous as those that had surrounded him in his former mental obscurity. His gigantic powers were aroused, but, too frequently misapplied, they shook the social edifice to its very foundation. The daring hand of innovation destroyed without contemplating what better fabric could be raised on the ruin: and while the nobler faculties with which Providence had gifted us were exerted for the public weal, the baser parts of our passions sought liberty in licentiousness. Ambition degenerated into ferocity, scepticism led to impiety, and even apparent virtue sought to propagate the doctrines of good, by assuming the \"goodly outside\" of vice. Religion was [Pg viii]overthrown because priestcraft had deceived, and high rank was held up to detestation because princes and nobles had been corrupt; and to use Shakespeare's words,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus we debase\u003cbr\u003eThe nature of our seats, and make the rabble\u003cbr\u003eCall our cares, fears; which will in time break ope\u003cbr\u003eThe lock o' the senate, and bring in the crows\u003cbr\u003eTo peck the eagles.","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069102997744,"sku":"2940013900547","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013900547_p0.jpg?v=1763596880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013900547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}