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Mr. Carlisle’s Lecture 
and they will be regenerated without apparent inconvenience 
to the individual : the whole ahimal is equally sensible, equally 
irritable, equally alive : its procreation is gemmiferous. Every 
part is pervaded by the nutritious juices, every part is acted 
upon by the respiratory influence, every part is equally capable 
of motion, and of altering its figure in all directions, whilst 
neither blood-vessels, nerves, nor muscular fibres, are disco- 
verable by any of the modes of investigation hitherto instituted. 
From this abstract animal (if such a term may be admitted) 
up to the human frame, the variety of accessory parts, and of 
organs by which a complicated machinery is operated, exhibit 
infinite marks of design, and of accommodations to the pur- 
poses which fix the order of nature. 
In the more complicated animals, there are parts adapted 
for trivial conveniences, much of their materials not being 
alive, and the entire offices of some liable to be dispensed 
with. The water transfused throughout the intersticial spaces 
of the animal fabric, the combinations with lime in bones, 
shells, and teeth ; the horns, hoofs, spines, hairs, feathers, and 
cuticular coverings, are all of them, or the principal parts of 
their substance, extra-vascular, insensible, and unalterable by 
the animal functions after they are completed. I have formed 
an opinion, grounded on extensive observation, that many 
more parts of animal bodies may be considered as inanimate 
substances ; even the reticular membrane itself seems to be of 
this class, and tendons, which may be the condensed state of 
it; but these particulars are foreign to the present occasion. 
The deduction now to be made, and applied to the history 
of muscular motion, is, that animated matter may be connected 
with inanimate ; this is exemplified in the adhesions of the 
