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to realize the speculations of philoso- 

 phers, and to verify the deductions of reason, 

 by demonstrating the existence of a sub- 

 tile, active, vital principle, pervading 

 all nature as has heretofore been sur- 

 mized, and denominated the Anima Mundi. 

 The opinions which in former times were 

 a justifiable hypothesis, seem to me now 

 to be converted into a rational theory. 



Kill 



It is then, I think, manifest, that Mr. 

 Hunter's Theory of Life, presents us with 

 the most probable solution of the phae- 

 nomena of irritability, of any that has 

 hitherto beeta proposed. 



The human mind ha* been the same at all 

 periods of the world ; in fcll ages there have 

 been men of a sceptical disposition, disin- 

 clined to believe any thittg that was not di- 

 rectly an object of their senses. At allperiods 

 there have been other men of a contem- 



