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nature to arise from organization, or mere 

 vital actions. 



Whilst, then, I most readily concede to 

 what is demanded in this system of organ- 

 ology, that the variety of effects produced 

 may be the result of modifications of vital 

 actions transmitted through diversities of 

 structure, I most strongly protest against 

 the opinion, that the organs themselves are 

 perceptive ; or, indeed, against any opinion 

 which impugns the belief of the unity of 

 that which is perceptive, rational, and in- 

 telligent. Many of our actions are the 

 result of complicated thoughts and feelings, 

 each seeming to have yielded a portion of 

 its peculiar interests, so as to produce a 

 modified result. But how, may I ask, has 

 this compromise been made ? A gentle- 

 man once humorously answered this ques- 

 tion by saying, that it was done by com- 

 mittees of the several organs, and a board 



