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before the mind of our readers, we are under the ne- 

 cessity of having recourse to a long quotation. We 

 fear our readers will find Sir Henry's metaphysics 

 not very intelligible ; but this may well be forgiven, 

 we are all too guilty of plunging about when we get 

 into deep water, and some of us have not always sense 

 enough to swim mth the stream. 



We here introduce a quotation of our author : 

 " But while every organic creation tends to full de- 

 velopment, that is, to absolute energy, or perfect life, 

 still we find, that the organs of which it is compos- 

 ed are each reciprocally dependent on every other, 

 for the possibility and degree of their peculiar action. 

 At the same time, as these internal conditions of ani- 

 mated existence are severally dependent on certain 

 external conditions, which, again, are not always fully 

 and equally supplied ; so it follows, that the life of 

 every organized being is determined in its amount, 

 and in the direction of its development, by the out- 

 ward circumstances of its individual situation. For 

 this reason, we see that every animal, and every plant, 

 is dependent for its existence, and also for its perfect 

 existence, on conditions both internal and externaL 

 " From this reasoning it may be conceived, how 

 the several parts of the living whole reciprocally act 

 and react. They are, in fact, cause and effect mu- 



