Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 22d of February, 1820Parmenides, Plato, and other philosophers question ed the possibility of acquiring knowledge by the senses, and preferred to it, that which can be obtained by the faculties of the mind. Pyrrho carried the spirit of scepticism to a greater extent, and believed that both means were equally deceptive. The extension of Pyrrhonism brought dialects into disrepute, and en feebled the in¿uence of the dogmatists. A new sect(21)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.