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On the Sentient Principle . $ i \
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may forbid their having equal success . Wishing that in future a spirit of Christian candour may have a due restraint upon ypur zeal , and render your labours in' tlje Gospel of our common Master more worthy of ge ^ neral acceptance , and of cordial approbation , I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant , RICHARD FEY .
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Repository , a few lines respecting' the state of the work , and what time may possibly elapse before its appearance . Allow n ? e also to make an inquiry after Dr . Lloyd ' s proposed pamphlet on the Greek Article , as connected with tjfcie Peity of Christ . Are the Unitarians to be gratified by its pub * lication ? G . B .
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S * m May 16 , 1817 . YOUR Correspondent N . [ p . $ 10 ] , in his Essay on Vitality observes , " whether it ( the body ) , increase * or decreases ; whether it preserves all its members or is mutilated of them all , the rational principle is not injured , but in many instances strengthened by the loss of limbs ; all proving
the complete distinction between body and mind . ' This is an argument frequently produced for the distinct nature and in > destructibleness of the human soul : but I should not have expected to see it produced by so philosophical an observer of natural history as your Correspondent . The mutilation of the
limbs affects not the rational principle any more than their decay by old age , for the plain reason that the rational principle is not there . How then does this fact prove a complete distinction between body and mind ? The seat of the sentient principle is the brain : if the brain continue sound * the faculties are sound even to
extreme old age and in the hour of death ; if the brain lose its healthful fibre , the faculties are prematurely enfeebled : if the brain be seriously injured , as by the concussion of a blowr-the rational principle is injured * and madness or idiocy ensues , The inference to be drawn is directly opposite to the conclusion drawn by
your Co-respondent . As N . argues the peint on philosophical grounds , I make no use of the arguments which may be drawn from Scripture against this hypothesis of a vital principle distinct from man s , physical organization . Hi& position that " organization alone is
ct were ? machine wholly void of all s ^ aaatian , " uperejy tags , the questi / QU : which , is * , wbofcheit Almighty power has not ixnprcwtQd t&is organized matter vvitb a ~ pri #£ ipl # . of vitally and H , tbi jikin $ tfujul ty ?
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Sjr , Stowrhridge , May 5 , 1817 . YOUR Correspondent from this vicinity [ p , 21 Q ] , may be assured that ao designed misrepresentation or accidental error occurred in the biographical memoir inserted in your publication for January last , relative to the late Rev . B . Carpenter . At the very time when he is represented
as resuming the pastoral charge ( Oct . 12 , 1806 ) , he was officiating as a supply during a vacancy ; and at the . close of his discourse on the morning of that day , delivered an address to the congregation which contains the following passage , alluding to an invitation which had been sent to hipa on the 10 th September preceding :
" I think it better not to give a decisive answer to it at present , but only to engage to supply this , congregation in pervson or by proxy till Christmas . " Thjs plan was adopted . Mr . Carpenter and Mr . Ward officiated during the remainder of the quarter . The vacancy was prolonged till the end of
ttiefirs * quarter of % 8 O 7 > during which NLr . Caifpentei ? and Mr . Scott perfcrn ^ ed the sertwe ^ as supplies , and becanio sjatecj pastors from March 2 £ th < j > f th ^ t year . This . sta , tejfne ^ t nqt only agrees with facts well kiiqwi ) to ail \« houa they concern , lu ^ t is > eiigraved on the dqlonuwieot ereqtejdtiQk t&g irienv > ey of Mr . Cairpent ^ r- W . S .
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\ ff r— tl , , * y , tiecw ' jTannt qw * $ W , May 9 , IS 17 . TT OOKJNG somG time since into JL 4 yoiwr Te # * hj Yolunq ^ , I observed in the Repository for Nov-en ^ ber , 1 8 ^ 5 , a ]^ c « p ^ t ^ of n Qreqk and English Lejrfipoja * t | y « tfce B , ev . John Jones .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/21/
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