Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Vermont Medical College, at Woodstock, June 8, 1842Philosophers have observed a certain relationship among the different branches of knowledge. A secret bond unites the most dissimilar and disconnected truths - a principle of union, by means of which the scattered frag ments of thought are collected into a system. And it has been a favorite object of studious men thus to arrange our ideas, and exhibit their natural order and developement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.