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poses, as mouth and stomachs, roots, and various 
vessels, to nutrition: yet it is not less clear, that 
every portion of creation, large or small, has its al- 
lotted limited relation to others and to all; and 
therefore each must present numerous analogies with 
others which are connected with different conditions 
of locality, and different functions, either respecting 
sensitive creatures, or the great globe itself, its land, 
its water, its atsmosphere, its relations to the sun, 
to the moon, and other planets, and to the constella- 
tions of the starry concave. 
Every division of science presents such analogies. 
Mechanics with anatomy, with astronomy, with hy- 
drostatics, with chemistry; optics with acoustics, 
with electricity ; geology with chemistry, with zoo- 
logy and botany. T he objects of all senses may pro- 
bably possess many unexplored relations to each 
other. The senses of touch, of taste, of smell, al- 
though not so readily discriminable as those of sight 
and hearing, would, on minute scrutiny, be found no 
doubt to be analogically limited as to proportions of 
combination productive of definite results. As at- 
mospheric air, for example, is always composed of 
certain definite proportions of three gases; so cer- 
tain tastes, scents, and varieties of touch, may pos- 
sibly be compounds of other more simple conditions 
of excitement. That tastes or flavours may be imi- 
tated is proved by those who have amused themselves 
and others by combining acids, acrids, bitters and 
sweets in producing resemblances of Port and of 
Champagne wines. 
