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their analogical investigations till they have more satisfactorily discovered those indiscerptible parts of the human frame , from , which man is to arise , and by which identity is to be continued .
Upon reviewing my . own- remarks , I find they convey an opinion I do not adopt , and I am obliged to Mr . Parkes for pointing it out . I have said , all the particles of the human frame may
be proved indestructible , and this , I observe , he applies to the whole body ; and inquires , why I undertake to confute an opinion , the resurrection of the whole body , which he never maintained . I did
intend my- remark to be confined . to the intellectual part of man , which constitutes his proper identity , which being the result of organization , and being destroyed at death , must depend upon the re-arrangement of the particles to induce the same consciousness . In reply to the objection , that no individual of the human species is endowed with faculties
capable of indefinite improvements , but are as regularly subject to decline and death as to birth and improvement / I must beg leave
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository
Mansfield , Feb . 6 . 1810 . SIR , Should this arrive in time agreeably to my hopes , to receive a place in the next number of your widely-circulated Repository , the insertion of its contents there will
be esteemed a favour granted to myself ; and prove , I trust , ra * ther a welcome piece of kindness shown to the gentleman , whose expressed apprehensions of dan-
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to remind him , he supposes what
from Jiniform experience is inadnu .-. si ¦ >{ - : ¦ « ,. ¦ 44 that infirmities and death rever assail him . " For every b . ing introduced into existence , necessarily proceeds to second childhood , should his life be ' sufficiently prolonged : and to refer to the vegetable kingdom , we might as reasonabl y expect
the ¦' stately oak , in its progress to maturity , would advance till it eclipsed the Egyptian pyramid , as that the vigorous faculties of a Newton , at the age of forty or fifty years , would be equalled by
those which had been exhausted by a career of eighty or ninetv .
As to the arguments founded on the goodness of the Deity , in support of the expectation of a future life , I do not deem them more conclusive than those from the indestructibility of matter ; but I am not desirous of enlarging : this discussion , which , from the hi / it at brevity you lately gave to your correspondents , has , I fear , in the present instance , transgressed your bounds . I am , Sir , Your ' s , &c . G .
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ger , from the Dissonance of the Four Gospels , ( introduced with a severe critique on that work and its author , in the article an . nounced in the title-page of your last number , u A Review of a New Testament on Mr . Evanson ' a Plan , " ) to the Christian religion , I am very desirous to take an early opportunity of using my best endeavours to remove , by an assurance , which it is happily in
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125 Information concerning Mr . Evansotfs New Testament .
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INFORMATION CONCERNING Mil . EVAtfSON ' s NEW TESTAMENT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/22/
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