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table motions. The irritable actions of life 

 are however more particularly allotted to 

 the animal kingdom. She has superadded 

 to life sensation, but confined the sentient 

 principle to the brain alone, and yet en- 

 abled it to perceive all that happens in the 

 body, and even in remote objects, as well 

 as to regulate those actions which may 

 contribute to the welfare of the perceptive 

 individual. She has allotted sensation and 

 faculties in various degrees to animals, 

 adapting both their feelings and dispositions 

 to the situation they occupy in the gradu- 

 ated scale of existence. She has made 

 man in the highest degree sensitive and 

 intelligent. She has given him reason and 

 sentiments of so exalted and commanding 

 a nature, that under their excitement he 

 will sustain and encounter what his nature 

 as an animal most dreads and abhors. At 

 the call of honour, or under the conviction 

 of right, he will endure torture with 

 seeming apathy or derision, and welcome 

 death with smiles. In the exercise of his 

 intellectual powers he is abstracted from 

 his body, and unconscious of its existence. 



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