The apparent revival of a dead man by galvanism. Drawing attributed to G.M. Woodward.

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Lettering: Galvanism or the dead alive. Folly as it flies. Making us fools of nature so horribly to shake our dispositions with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls. Alexander Pope, Essay on man, epistle i, v. 13 "Eye Natures walks, shoot folly as it flies, / And catch the manners living as they rise; / Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man" "Making us fools of nature [...]": a paraphrase of Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, "What may this mean / That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, / Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, / Making night hideous, and we fools of nature / So horridly to shake our disposition / With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?"