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destroy or dissolve d body containing a portion of the electric fluid , you would not conclude that you had destroyed the fluid along with the substance that contained it : no , it would certainly lly off and escape all your art and all your power ; so in like manner , the dissolution of the mortal body may in no respect injure the mind * . The doctrine of materialism appears to be contrary to fact . It denies the necessity of any thing more than the visible structure of
the brain to produce the act ot thinking , in consequence of perception ; but the contrary seems to be m © re probable , for in the 4 th Void me of Memoirs of the
Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester , there is a very valuable paper by Dr . Ferriar , proving by evidence apparently complete , that every part of the brain has been deeply injured or
totally destroyed without affecting the act of thought . I can only refer your readers to the paper itself , in which they will find much curious and interesting matter ^ and a number of important cases
supported by the most unexceptionable authority , which almost , if not altogether ^ amount to a demonstration that something more than the discernible organization
of the brain must be requisite to produce the phenomena of thinking . Any abridgement of the paper would weaken its reasoning ^ which , built on matters of fact and
experience , appears to me to have shaken the modern theory of the materialists to the very foundation . But it is time to conclude my first letter , into which I have —
r * See Fellowes ' s Body of Theology * and Watsoji on a Future State .
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A curious Baptism , described and recommended by Dr . Adam Clarke . ^ Ex tracted fro m a Me moir of Mr , Thomas Tripp * , in the Methodist Magazine , for May 1811 . J "
From Mr . Tripp I was favoured with man } ' anecdotes , relative ( o the travail of his soul . They are precious to me from the manner in which they were confided to me ; and had they been known to
my good friend Mr . Brownell , the writer of the preceding account , they would have been detailed to considerable advantage . I shall relate a short one * because I think
it may be of use . Some zealous Baptists , who placed full as much dependence on immersion as their creed required , were continually teasing him with a profusion of such arguments as arc generally
used in favour of being dipped At last the subject formed itself into a powerful temptation , wivli which the peace of his mind was , for a time , considerably troubled .
Though he was satisfied that he had both the shadow and the substance , the outward and visible sign , and the inward and sp iritual
* For an account of Mr , Trip ? , r M . Repos . Vol . iv , p . 34 ° .
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4 L 0 A curious Baptism , described by Dr . Adam Clarice .
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incorporated the ideas of diffe rent writers , and sometimes perhaps in their own words , with only a general acknowledgment , which it was impossible to avoid , as I have written from transcriptions and notes made at different times , and have not the books to refer to
In my next I shall make my appeal to the New Testament . I am yours , &c . J . P .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/26/
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