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    impressed , I say , with the vanity of Micti attempts , candidly declare , whether he conteives that- action in every-ease requires the presence of solid atoms : and if immaterial powers exist , may not perception fee one of them ? The nerves may vibrate , Hnd the various fluids in the brain may circulate ; it is still nothing more than solid particles of rnattei changing position : where is the witness of all these

    evolutions ? Js it one or all of these particles that learn to hear a » d see f Whether the rnmd shall survive the stroke of death , is a distinct question , But , from analogy , it is to be inferred , that we at present ' possess that principle , whatever k may be , that shall develope itself into our future nature and form . The scripture ^ ( our surest guidne in this momentous question ) , assures us that at the resurrection

    * ve shall resume the powers of thinking and acting ; but it no where countenances the idea , that the chain which connects our present to our future existence shall

    be entirely broken : since St . Paul evidently alludes to a connecting link , in comparing our revival to io the springing of grain , in which

    Divine Wisdom has immutably fixed the germ of the future plant . Indeed , were not this the case , every creature , who is destined to hear the voice of the son of man

    and come f&rth , would be as new as Adam was ; his crimes would ibe ideal , and his virtues imputed arightctousneiss : In offering tbese difficulties , I

    < entertairi . hopias that some of your ? coueftpoiidetite ha ^ e krguments in rstoi * e , « ap&fel £# f r&lieVirtg me from * paxt of them ^ 6 r , at least , that « unxe author may be mentioned ,

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    whose mode of treating the sub * ject leads to a more direct notice of them than I haye hitherto met with * 1 am with esteem , • Yours'f &c . H .

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    714 Mr . Wright on the Total Mortality of Man *

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    Mr . Wright on the Tjotal Mortality of Man ; in reply to an Or * thodox Christian . " Sir ,

    In reply to An Orthodox Chris * tian ' s communication , on the connexion of Unitariaaism and Materialism , { p . 607 ) , I offer the following remarks . ¦» ¦ 1 . I kriow 4 Vmost Christians

    h ^> ld the natural immortality the soul ;" .. but this is jk ) proof of the truth of : that irotjon . For many ages , most reputed orthodox Christians held the doctrine of

    transubstantiation ; bikt this is esteemed no proof of itslruth by Protestants . The natural immortality ° f tfcc soul requires better proof than merely its having obtained credit with the majority . However popular it may have been > it is

    contrary to all natural appearances , without foundation in scripture , and incompatible .. with- what is plainly taught in the New Testament , that the future existence of man depends on his resurrection from the dead *

    2- If what Mr , Grove has said , that , " the soul is properly the man ; the body beare no more proportion to the soul , in real value , than a hair of the head does to the whole bod y / ' be true , and the soul be ' naturally immortal , it ratast follow that man never dies ;

    for if what is properly the man , neither does nor can die ^ how can he with truth and propriety be said t ^ die ? As th 6 destruc tion

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/10/