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15. Different animated beings bear also relation lo the 

 continued subsistence of each other, and of their respcctis'e 

 species, subject to the exertions of thought and voluntary 

 power : — mothers to their offspring ; males and females lo 

 their species. 



16. Relations of position perceived in things whose con- 

 tinued mode of being is the effect of mutual tendencies, in- 

 fluencies, attractions, or impulses of particles, to concur and 

 cohere, are artributable to the same tendencies which have 

 produced the concurrence and cohesion. Relations be- 

 tween forms having no such tendency to cohere, indepen- 

 dent of life, (v. clauses 8, 9, 10,) and dependent for con- 

 tinued subsistence on the exertions of thought, and volun- 

 tary power, are, |?y analogy, attributable to life, thought^ 

 and voluntary power. 



17. Either life, thought, and voluntary power, exist inde- 

 pendent of form, or they are produced by form; or-the 

 concurrence of particles^ not independently possessing 

 either, or the cohesion of particles having no mutual tenden- 

 cies to concur, cohere, and subsist, in such manner inde- 

 pendent of them. The latter supposition makes life, 

 thought, Sec, both cause and effect ; which is absurd. 



Our experience is direct, that life, thought, and voluntary 

 power are neither jointly or separately the results of form : 

 their continuance is not affected by the amputation of great 

 part of the form of animated beings. 



18. The duration of the form of animated beings is limit- 

 ed by laws peculiar lo each species of living beings : its re- 

 lations to life, Sec, are therefore limited. 



The limited duration of the forms of living beings is or- 

 dained by the power which constituted the varieties of 

 form. 



19. The limitation of a mode of being is a prospective 

 ordinance ; it is the act therefore of a power, regarding a 

 future state of being different from that immediately pro- 

 duced. 



20. The power which has constituted the forms of living 

 beings comprehends all relations to life, thought, and volun- 

 tary power, limits .-ind coptrolu attraction, repulsion, and 



impulse ; 



