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other faculties attendant on perception, are 

 connected with the brain alone is natural to 

 most men, confirmed by reasons so strong 

 and clear, that they have convinced those 

 of the greatest intellect in different aeras and 

 countries, and it is corroborated by all the 

 discoveries in science. I have already ob- 

 served, that we know nothing but the pro- 

 perties of the different substances we re- 

 cognize in nature ; of the subject which 

 supports these properties we seem, in every 

 instance, to be equally ignorant. Mr. Hun- 

 ter's proposition, that the phsenomena of 

 life are produced by something which is 

 superadded to structure, cannot, I think, 

 be disputed. But if this be granted, the 

 facts which have been mentioned, call 

 upon us also to admit, that life is not 

 essentially perceptive ; and I further con- 

 tend, that reason absolutely prohibits our 

 supposing, that perception, with its con- 

 comitant attributes of consciousness and 

 volition, and its various attendant faculties, 

 propensities, and sentiments, can be the 

 result of any arrangement or motion of 

 insensible atoms. I know, indeed, I may 



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