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implanted the desire of examining every department of nature, 
and the power of extending his views beyond the confines of this 
globe. On him alone has the high privilege been bestowed of 
recognising and of adoring the power, the wisdom, and the good- 
ness of the Author of the Universe, from whom his being ema- 
nated, to whom he owes all the blessings which attend it, and 
by whom he has been taught to look forward to brighter skies, 
and to purer and more exalted conditions of existence. Heir to 
this high destination, man discards all alliance with the beasts 
that perish ; confiding in the assurance that the dissolution of 
his earthly frame destroys not the germ of immortality which 
has been implanted within him, and by the development of 
which the great scheme of Providence, here commenced, will be 
carried on, in the future state of being, to its final and perfect 
consummation. 
Roget’s Bridgewater Treatise , vol. ii, p. 573. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
* Inaugural Dissertation on the Physiology arid Pathology of the 
Brain. By J OHN H ughes Bennett. Edinburgh : John 
Carfrae and Son ; Longman and Co., London. 
There is no portion of physiology so interesting — there is 
none in the knowledge of which such rapid advances have been 
made within the last few years — as the structure and functions 
of the brain, and the laws which govern its operations and its 
powers. It is now acknowledged by all inquirers, that sensation 
and motion are intimately connected with the existence and 
healthy structure of the brain and spinal cord, and that intel- 
lectual power belongs to the brain alone. We have nothing to 
do with the metaphysical speculations of theologians — there is 
nothing in these inquiries which can interfere with our duties or 
our hopes — we leave the connexion between matter and mind to 
the discovery of future ages, or a future existence : but we have 
arrived at this simple, profound, sublime conclusion, that all the 
manifestations of mind are attributable to the brain, and that all 
