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ON ORGANIZATION 



XVII. — Abstract of a Paper on the Scale of Be- 

 ing, and particularly on Organization and the 

 Living Principle. 



By John Campbell, Esq. of Carbrook, F. It. S. E, 

 & M. W. S. 



(Bead 6th March I8I9.J 



In tracing that chain of connection which, amidst 

 an almost endless variety, binds the different parts 

 of creation together, we can perceive, in the mate- 

 rial world, the progressive links, from inert matter, 

 to the living principle superinduced on the most 

 delicate organization ; and in the intellectual world 

 also, from instinct, ascending through those facul- 

 ties which are exhibited, by animals, to the rational 

 responsible soul, which, with or without the human 

 body, identifies Man. We shall limit this Ab- 

 stract to what relates to the material division of the 

 Scale, and, noticing very briefly the three lower 



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