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recrulatecL the growth and duration of the 



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human frame, surpass the bounds of our 

 conception. Yet how much more astonish- 

 ing is the faculty of thought ; that invisible 

 ardent to which all the actions of the body 



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;ire subservient, and without which we 

 would only vegetate upon earth. Where is 

 its seat, and what is its nature ? How is it 

 unfolded ? Similar to the breeze, which, by 

 agitating the foliage, produces an agreeable 

 murmur, that imparts life and animation to 

 the landscape, the mind is in an incessant 

 state of activity, though it remains always 

 invisible ; and its union with matter is a 

 phenomenon far beyond our faculties to con- 

 ceive. Jn short, ho\v comes it that things 

 so dissimilar as mind and matter are so in- 

 timately blended together ? How, besides, 

 does it happen, that the motions of the body 

 f.o infallibly coi\vey ideas to the mind ? and 

 how comes it that the ideas of the mind, in 

 their turn, so quickly produce certain mo- 

 tions or the body ? As the Almighty, aiter 



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