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an instant his intellectual faculties disappeared. His sentient 
faculties seemed to continue; for groans, and other eviden- 
ces of pain did not cease. At midnight his body became in- 
sensible to pain. His groans ceased, and the mere simple liv- 
ing principle seemed to be all that remained. At one o’clock, 
on the 14th, the living principle was suspended. Death then 
becoming triumphant, -his body was given over to the laws 
of chemical ‘attraction. Could matter be divested of this 
last power, (attraction,) mere inert matter would remain. 
Hence I would infer, that the most perfect being which 
comes from the hand of the Creator, consists of five princi- 
les. 1, Inert matter—2, the attractive principle—3, the liv- 
ing principle, (so far even plants may go,) 4, the sentient 
principle (so far the lower orders of animals go,)—5, the in- 
tellectual principle, peculiar to man; being the immortal soul. 
ot add any remarks upon our five senses—seeing 
—hearing—smelling—tasting—feeling. No one has over- 
looked this ‘fact. 
4. Alcohol, or spiritous liquors, from succulent | iti 
farinaceous fruits, and herbage of plants.—Pror. Eaton. 
propose for a medical dissertation the following.query. — 
5. On the use of alumi ith pigments de presen nd’. 
let.—In preparing his paints, by levigating pigments withou, 
the Attias ja often perplexed, by the diversities which they ex- 
