tsor too obtuse. Indeed all the scnsos are exactly 

 adapted to the exigences of our present state. Were 

 they strained much higher, they would be avenues of 

 anguish ; were they much relaxed they would be well 

 nigh useless. 



The crowning gift which augments the benefits ac- 

 cruing from all the senses is Speech. Speech makes 

 n^ a gainer by the eyes avid ears of others, by their 

 ideas and observations* And what art admirable in. 

 strumen? f..r articulating 'the voice, and modifying it 

 into speech, is the tongue ? This little collection of 

 muscular fibres, under the direction of (he Creator, is 

 theaitificer of our words; by this we communicate 

 the secrets of our breasts, and make our very thoughts 

 audible. This likewise is the efficient cause of music j 

 it is soft as the lute, or shrill as the trumpet. As the 

 tongue requires an easy play r it is lodged in an ample 

 cavity ; it moves under a concave roof, which gives ad. 

 ditional vigour to the \oice, as the shell of a violin to 

 the sound of the strings. 



Wonderfully wise is the regulation of voluntary and 

 involuntary notions. The Will in some cases has no 

 power : in others she i? an absolute sovereign. If she 

 commands, the arm is stretched, the hand is closed. 

 How easily, how punctually are her orders obeyed ! 

 To turn the screw or work the lever is laborious and 

 wearisome ; but we work the vertebras of the neck 

 with all tneir appendam chambers ; we advance the leg 

 with the whole en-cumbent body ; we rise, we spring 

 from the ground, and though so great a weight is 

 raised, we mett with no difficulty or fatigue. 



Til** i all this should be effected without any toil by 

 a bare act of tie Will is very surprising ; but that it 

 should be done even while we are entirely ignorant of 

 the manner in which it is performed is most astonish- 

 ing. Who can play a single tune upon the spinnet, 

 witnout K-arning the difference of the keys ? Yet tho 

 mind toucnes every spring of the human machine with 

 the most masterly skillj though she knows nothing at 



