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ed to me very sensible, and they were 

 accordant to the philosophy of his own 

 times. He says, Si vero, cogitata nostra 

 de ipsa natura spirituum proferre jube- 

 remur, activum ad motum, a voluntate 

 & a sensu concipiendum, aptissimum, ce- 

 lerrimum, omne sensuum acie subtilius, ta- 

 men hactenus igne & aethere, & electro, 

 & magnetica materie crassius facere ele- 

 mentum, ut et contineri vasis, & a vin- 

 culis coerceri aptum sit : & denique mani- 

 festum ex cibis nasci & reparare queat. 



Mr. Hunter's opinion of 3, subtile and 

 mobile substance, inhering in the nervous 

 chords, is not essentially different from 

 that of Haller. He does not indeed 

 suppose it to, be confined in tubes, neither 

 does the philosophy of the present time 

 require such a supposition, for no one at 

 present will doubt that a subtile substance 

 may be attached to or inhere iij a chord 



