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duced. Yet it is almost necessary to pur- 

 sue the same course of reflections, that he 

 himself has done, to be fully aware of the 

 intensity of thought with which he has con- 

 sidered many parts of the subject. In thus 

 asserting the claims of Mr. Hunter, I hope 

 that I shall not be considered as blind to 

 the merits of others, or reluctant to ac- 

 knowledge the valuable information which 

 we have received from other anatomists 

 since his time. I wished also to corrobo- 

 rate, by additional arguments, the opinions 

 I merely alluded to in my former lectures, 

 and which I consider to be those of the 

 most intellectual of the Greek philosophers, 

 that perceptivity, and the various proper- 

 ties of mind, are not attributes of mere 

 life, but probably of a distinct substance. 



Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life has how- 

 ever been said to be absurd and unte- 

 nable, and even has been held up to ridi- 

 cule by those attached to the physiological 

 opinions that have chiefly issued from some 

 of the writers of the French school. What 

 those, who are advocates for such opinions 



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