Excerpt from Homϗpathy, and Its Kindred Delusions: Two Lectures Delivered Before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Homopathy has come before our public at a period when the growing spirit of eclecticism has prepared many ingenious and honest minds to listen to all new doctrines with a candor liable to degenerate into weakness. It is not impossible that the pretended evolution of great and mysterious virtues from infinitely attenuated atoms, may have enticed a few over-refining philosophers, Who have slid into a vague belief that matter subdivided gros less material, and approaches nearer to a splritt'tal nature as it requires a more powerful microscope for its detection.