Note 35 — Chapter XIII · THE FURTHER HISTORY OF METHODISM AT ROME, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TWO NEW SECTS, VIZ., THE PNEUMATISTS AND THE ECLECTICS.—A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SUBJECT OF SECTS IN MEDICINE
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Le Clerc calls attention to the incorrectness—etymologically speaking—of the use of the word “Eclectics” in connection with a school or sect. The members of such a body are not, he says, “the chosen ones” as the term signifies, but “the choosers.”