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wards and sideways , to open the mouth by pulling the lower jaw downwards , and to move the parts concer ned in deglutition and speaking . Hence we see a property of muscles which could only be the result of care-, this is their being almost universally
so disposed , as not to obstruct or interfere with one another ' s action . Now when we reflect upon the number of muscles , nearly 500 , dispersed in the human body , how very con tiguous they lie on each other , in layers sometimes over one another , crossi n g one . another , sometimes embedded i n one
another , sometimes perforating one another , an arrangement which leaves to each its liberty , and full play , must necessaril y have required meditation and counsel . It has been asserted , but without
reason , that wherever nature attern ^* ts to work two or more purposes by one instrument , she does both orallim--perfectly . Surely this is not true of the tongue considered as an
instrument of speech and of taste , or considered as an instrument of speech , of taste and of deglutition . Do not a vast majority of persons by the instrumentality of this one organ talk , and taste and swallow extremel y
weh i he constant warmth and moisture of the tongue , the thinness of the skin , the papillae upon its surface qualify this little organ for its office of tasting , as much as its inextricable multiplicity of fibres do for the mpid movements which are necessary to speech .
we may also consider the parts executing distinct offices within the cavity of the mouth : teeth for cutting and grinding—muscles for carrying ° n the compound motion of the lower jaw by which the mill is work-^ . j , fountains of saliva , springing up in different
parts of the cavil > for the Mois tening of the food , while the niasticatjou is going on—glands to feed these fouu tains—muscular contract ions t 0 guide the aliment to the stomach , * jw for carrying it along the passage . ine business of respiration and speech «» iso
/ » curried on within the same cavlt from which a pssage is opened * ° the lungs for the admission of the af ° " ^~ » uscles for modulating that lr >»» its passage , with a variety , a I ^ yass and precision , of which no W ? instru ^ eut is capable : and 8 t | y , we have a specific contrivance
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for dividing the pneumatic part l ' rom the mechanical , and for prevent ing one set of actions interfering with another . The mouth is a single machine , with its parts neither crowded no ? f confused , each-at liberty for the end to be attained .
There is one case of this double office which the mouth could not perform alone , and that of the * first necessity , viz ., sucking and breathing' : a route is therefore opened through the nose , which allows the breath to pass backward ar . d forward , while the lips
in the act of sucking are shut close upon the body from which the nutriment is drawn . The siose would , therefore , have been iie ^ f-ss ^ ry , although it bad nut been the organ of smelling . The m ^ kii > g it the seat of
a sense was superadding a new use to a part already wanted ; it was taking a wise advantage of an antecedent and a constitutional necessity . See Paley ' s Nat . Theof .
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Sir , London , Ang . \ 5 , 1815 . ~ Y" AM happy to see that in the dis-Jk \ cussion in your valuable an dhighly useful Magazine upon the appropriation of the term Unitarian , the decision appea rs to be on the side of liberality ; but it seems to rue that if there be any meaning in words , the term cannot be made to relate in any
way to a difference of o piiiion upon the pre- existence or perso n of Christ , any farthxer than as he is c lenied to be the Supreme God , which alone entitles a m ; in to be called ai l Unitarian . If , Sir , so . rne amongst us wish to be more particularly distinguished , I would propose they shoult 1 < all themselves bv the name of Hu > Munitarian $
—which would sufficiently express their peculiar opinions on the person of Christ , micA if adopted and given in that spirit of lo \ e and meekness which should be our object , would
not lessen that liberality and goodwill which no \ ^ so ' happily prevail amongst the p roiessors of rational Christianity , th < augh not all agreHi / g upon some points of minor im ooiint'e . I was concerned to si c iu \*> ux last number , ( p . 600 ) I tint a vnher ,
who is cK ] Kiblc « of'better things , sik > u Id have < : oiidescend . eel to i ^ e a ^ ord adojvred by some from ihe \ ineiu- ; a » s ftrnythf / J whilst he mi _ hf have expressed himself w ith rt 3 e >; v ^ i > t > ¦ h , or more * effect fr « &m the sloiea uf -our
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Z . o n the Term Unitarian . i Q 37
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/37/
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