246 Human Frame. 



a freezing atmosphere. These are pow- 

 ers which mock all human invention or 

 imitation ; they are characteristics of the 

 Divine Architect!" 



Part of the motions of the complicat- 

 ed frame of man, in common with all 

 animated beings, are voluntary, or de- 

 pendent on the mind f and part mvohin- 

 fari/^ or without the mind's direction. 



How the incorporeal existence, which 

 we call mind, can operate on matter, and 

 put it in motion, is to us perfectly incom- 

 prehensible. When the miatomist con- 

 siders the number of muscles that must 

 be put in motion before any animal exer- 

 tion can be effected ; when he views 

 them one by one, and tries to ascertain 

 the precise degree to which every indivi- 

 dual muscle must be constricted, or re- 

 laxed, before the particular motion indi- 

 cated can be effected, he finds himself 

 lost in the labyrinth of calculations in 

 which this involves him ; but when he 

 considers that every one of these muscles 

 must be constricted or relaxed to the pre- 

 cise degree that appertains to each, and 

 no more, and at the same instant of time ; 

 when he recollects, that the smallest jar- 



