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of the other vital functions, I think it 

 will appear that it is impossible to account 

 for the phsenomena in any other manner 

 than that which Mr. Hunter has sug- 

 gested. 



In ascending the difficult and lofty 

 ladder of knowledge, men of great talent 

 and industry seem to have affixed to it 

 certain resting places, on which, reposing 

 for a time from their labours, they could 

 tranquilly assemble their followers, and 

 contemplate more extensive views of nature, 

 and of nature's laws, than had before been 

 taken. If after having stood by the side 

 of the great teacher Newton, and learned 

 from him the properties of common and 

 inanimate matter, we afterwards attend 

 to Mr. Hunter, our great instructor in 

 the functions of living beings, he points 

 out to us how matter, starting from the 



