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mutticatiOTi being exit off with tht seat of government , the mind no longer has dominion over the parts beneath the injured spinal marrow , ascending From vertebr a * to vertebrae : in this manner , similar efforts
follow each fresh injury , and yet life continues , and consciousness also . Nor are the Senses injured-, but the moment the origin of the eighth pair of nerves is touched , consciousness ceases , arid death ensues . From these , and very many other experiments
which have been made , a conclusion must necessarily be drawn , that no where is the seat of vitality and consciousness in the spinal marrow , or in the sympathetic nerves , but that these are all instruments used by the vital power ; and that any injury done to
them , or any of them , is no injury done to the vital principle itself , any farther than by rendering it unabfe to perform those functions which cannot be performed without the aid of the injured parts . Indeed , so far is it from
being necessary to have the organized system perfect to enable vitality to act virrth its utmost vigour , that it will on the contrary be ofteii found , that as pfuhing the plant has often revived it from the borders of death , so has the loss of limbs removed tumours and
glandular swelFrm ^ s * and given to the whole system an energy before unknown to it . The seat of vitality is not , then , in the nervous system , neither is it in the
brain . Monsieur Le Gallois opened the cranium of a yoeifg rabbit , and cutting the brain horizontally from before , he removed it backwards , and found he could thus remove , not only the cerebrum , but also the cerebellum ,
and even a part of thfe * medulla oblongata without interrupting perspiration ; bat when the origin of the eighth pair of nerves were included ill the slice of the medulla oblongata , perspiration and respiration ceased ^ life , therefore , must tliew commence . Huniboldt , Halle and PerTy , by order
of the National Institute , examined and confirmed these experiments . I have now beside me twenty-four cases , in which the brain has in" almost every part bfeen injured , without destroying life or sensibility ; £ ud some farther cases , in which the whole of the brain ha » been destroyed , without the individual's sensibility
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[ Exti * aot from a Letter front Philadelphia , dated Sept . 25 , 1816 . ] HAVE often regretted that Mr . I JLindsey , Dr . Priestley , and others , have restricted the term Unitarian
to the believers in the humanity of Christ . I know it is alleged that Arians , to be consistent with tHeir principles , ought to worship Jesus Christ y but admitting the correctness of this deduction , attd that they are inconsistent , still , as they address only
the God and Father ot our Lord Jesus Christ , their worship and ours is precisely the same , and they ate real and practical Unitarians . It does not appear to be correct to judge our brethren according to our views , and contrary to their avowed declarations .
We complain , and vvilh reason , when -vve afe classed with infidels ; yet the reputed Orthodox rn # y say with equal plausibility that although we call ourselves Christians , and imagine that we afe entitled to the name of Christian , it does not properly belotig to us ; because , acdoi'dibg to their views of
Christianity , we deny its most important froths . They do not question oui- sincerity , but-Witt'not permit us t 6 rfeclde fbi * OtirselVes . We tfcay be unaftle to reconcile the belief that Jesus Christ is our Mftk £ r , wtfh the refusal to pay him divine * froiiduf-tf ; btit tfreTe are persons wttb rife * sincerely
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being affected . Life , therefore , connected with consciousness , that vital principle which is tfte &niittatitig mind , and may be said to cbnstitute the individual man , is not id the cerebral more than in the sympathetic nerves ,
neither is it in the brain . Whatever it be , or which may be the exact aiid precise point frdm which it acts , though we may be unable to say with absolute certainty , there appears at least to be full and sufficient evidence to conclude it is not flesh , nor blood , nor bones , but something
distinct from these , and possessing a capability of unknown endurance , and unceasingly progressive improvement ; it never passing away like the body , but during its mortal existence increasing in strength afnd judgment , and therefore is that which is to constitute man ' s future identity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/24/
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