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this analogous to motions of the Hving body ? Take 

 away one of these wheels, or levers, there is no 

 property or power in it ; take a part of the body, 

 and it has life, not as a property common to all 

 the body, like that of gravitation in dead matter, 

 but each portion has that endowment of life which 

 is demonstrable or evident by distinct phenome- 

 na : and then he adds, true it is, that there is the 

 example of beautiful machinery in the animal body, 

 but how much more admirable are the different 

 endowments of life which, corresponding together, 

 minister to the intellectual being ! One part has 

 the property of receiving impression, another has 

 the property of transmitting it, though it could not 

 receive it. The mind thus approached and influ- 

 enced, gives out its mandate by cords totally dis- 

 tinct, and with different properties : these have no 

 motion in themselves, but they arrange and con- 

 trol the moving organs of the body, which give 

 locomotion and agency. The whole body, then, 

 is a collection of parts, possessing different endow- 

 ments of life, exhibiting, by different phenomena, 

 the presence of that life ; and these different en- 

 dowments have a bearing to each other, or a syste- 

 matic arrangement, by which the communication 

 is established between the mind and the external 

 and material world. 



Mr. Hunter illustrated the subject thus : Death 

 is apparent or real. A man dragged out of the 

 water, and to appearance dead, is, notwithstand- 

 ing, alive, according to the definition we have 



