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tribnted in tlte labyrinth : and the nose , tongue and fingers , are so constructed , as that the nerves which are spread upon those parts receive different kinds of impressions by contact owing partly to the difference of the
medium through which the nerves are acted upo » i : the membrane which covers them being in some organs of a different structure , and sometimes denser than iu others . Hence we see that there is a common seat for impression in all the organs ; that the difference of sense is created by the organ itself , whose peculiar construe tion is calculated to receive only a particular influence from the impress ing body . What admirable simplicity J and yet how astonishing are the operations of these beautiful parts of our mechanism I '
Thus , in the five senses we have a manifest economy worthy of th $ Creator , whose power , wisdom and goodness , are evidently-set . forth by them . For whether we consider the
mechanism oj the organs , or the ust ; and convenience of each separate sense * we find it noble , grand , curious and artificial , and in every respeGt demanding of us the admiration of , and gratitude to the divine Author ,
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and the other parts of the channel for food $ admitting this to be the oase > the sense of taste -conveys to the mind sensations not only of flavours , but of hunger and thirst . In order to produce the sense of taste , the nervous extremities of the tongue must be moistened , and the action of
eating generally produces an effusion of a fluid from different parts of the mouth , j which answ-ers the double purpose of exciting taste and of assisting digestion . The pleasures derived from taste are very considerable ,
and the power of yielding pleasureable sensations accompanies the taste through Jife . Hence it has been inferred , that the pleasures of taste constitute one source of the mental pleasures * that is , those which can be felt
without the direct intervention of sen sation . They leave their relicts in the mind , and these combining together with other pleasures , form feelings which often connect themselves with objects which have no immediate connexion with the objects of
taste . To this source Hartley traces the principal origin of the social pleasures , and certainly thepje sures of the taste are the chief original sources of filial affection . One end , probably , of the long continuance of the pleasures of taste is to supply accessions of
vividness to the mental pleasures , but doubtless , the principal object is to make that a sou-rce of pleasure which is necessary for self-preservation . The pains of taste are much less numerous than those of feeling , and they seem chiefly to consist of those that are
tienessar \ to prompt us to avoid excessive abstinence or gratification , and to prevent the employment of improper food ; and therefore depend much more on causes which man usually has under his own controul .
We have now finished our description of ihe five senses and their organs ; in each of the latter we have seen that the nerve is the seat of impression , and the organ itself a kind of apparatus for conveying to the
nerve a particular influence from the impressing object . " Thus , " , says a good writer on the subject , " the transparent parts of the eye are calculated to transmit the rays , of lijjjit
to the in rve which is spread behind them . the fcar to col lect , concentrate , dndEpr < j | fa ^ ite the vibrations of sound , till they strike against the nerves dis-
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364 CheynelVs " Rise , Growth and Danger of So ciniantsme .
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Some Account of CheynelVs " Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinian * isme ( " Uontinuedjrorn p . 165 . ^
npHE title of Chap . IV . is < Whe-JL tlier England hath been , or still is in danger to be farther infected with Socinianisme , * arid Cheynell thus begins , — Farther infected , I say , for it is too evident that it hath been in
some measure already infected witli this pestilent heresie . I know the Archbishop of Canterbury did pretend to crush this cockatrice of Socinianisme , but all things being considered , it is to be feared that Ins Canon was ordained for concealing ,
rather than suppressing of Socnnanisine , ; for be desired that none but Ins own party should be admitted to the reading of Socinian books ; it'was ixiade almost impossible for any t hat were not of his party , to take the degree of Batchelotir of Divinity ( lcau say more in that point then (» another ) or at least improbable they should frave means to pay a groat afreet for Socinian books . it ^ Chevnell here refers to ihe v on
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/36/
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