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It is fufficient for us to know, that this 
fluid exifls in animals, that it can be there in a 
flute fit for aSlion, and that mufcular motion, 
fenfation, and nutrition, are not better ex¬ 
plained than admitting the identity of the ner¬ 
vous fluid with eledlrical matter . 
If any one can convince me of the non- 
neceffity of a fluid in the nerves, and at the 
fame time will explain, without the concur¬ 
rence of this agent, all the phenomena and 
funblions of which I have treated in the 
courfe of this work, I will candidly renounce 
my opinions i and without being ajhamed, 
avow that I have been miflaken. 
I Jhall, I doubt not, be charged with 
cruelty by many of my readers', but thofe who 
are thoroughly acquainted with my char alter, 
and know that I have facrificed every comfort 
and convenience of life, with all the pleafures 
offociety,for the purpofe of viflting different 
countries in fearch of information, that I have 
experienced every pojjible hardjhip and fa¬ 
tigue 
