tient and rational faculty, all intimately 

 connected, yet each apparently distinct 

 from the other. 





 So intimate, indeed, is the connection 



as to impose on us the opinion of their 

 identity. The body springs and bounds 

 as though its inert fabric were alive; 

 yet have we good reasons for believing 

 that life is distinct from organization. 

 The mind and the actions of life affect 

 each other. Failure or disturbance of 

 the actions of life prevent or disturb our 

 feelings, and enfeeble, perplex, or distract 

 our intellectual operations. The mind 

 equally affects the actions of life, and 

 thus influences the whole body. Terror 

 seems to palsy all its parts, whilst con- 

 trary emotions cause the limbs to struggle, 

 and become contracted from energy. 

 Now though these facts may countenance 

 the idea of the identity of mind and 



