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and is one distinct species of the great animal 

 Genus ? 



The answer to this question is decisive, so 

 far as respects the bodily character of man. 

 The faculties of sight, of hearing, smelling, 

 feeling, and whatever faculty the human body 

 may discover, are undoubtedly coeval with the 

 birth, or rather v^rith the existence of the in- 

 dividual man, though it requires exposure to 

 the objects adapted to them, before they can 

 be brought into act, and though they may in- 

 crease in strength and power as the body in- 

 creases, and in facility of exercise by use and 

 habit. No human being acquires one new 

 sense, one bodily faculty, which is strange and 

 foreign to his kind, however in degree or ap- 

 plication to different objects he may differ from 

 his fellow. In all the furniture of the body 

 therefore, there is a sameness of character in 

 man, and this furniture is inherent in the very 

 constitution of the human frame ; it is, as in 

 every species of created beings, that elementaiy 

 provision, which assigns to man his bodily 

 character, and limits its extent. 



Whatever the thing in him, called mind, 

 be, it is sui generis ; but whatever it be, it 

 has properties, which constitute its specific dif- 

 ference, and these properties, having no assi- 



