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The bright reward which Heaven reserves for those Whose days in virtue dawn , in virtue close ; For those , the patriot or the martyr band , ^ Who all resign at conscience' mute command . Let zealots still the torch of discord fan .
One only difFrence lies ' twixt man and man . It is not whether , Nature ' s simplest child , He bends before the morning ' s radiance mild , And pours his homage to the orb of day , The only sign he knows of Heav ' n ' s kind sway ; Or whether , where the tapers thro' the aisle Light faintly each Madonna ' s pictur'd smile ,
His prayers ascending to the vaulted skies . With music ' s tones and circling incense rise : But he who in life ' s ev ' ning sinks to rest , Others still blessing and by others blest ; He who has sooth'd the sufferer ' s couch of woe , Or sav'd the victim from the oppressor ' s blow ; He who has lit with joy his own fireside , And been alike his friend ' s support and pride ; He claims the sole distinction of his kind , By reigning" monarch of a virtuous mind ; He need not fear , whate ' er his creed may be , To leave to priests their selfish bigotry . T . T . P .
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[ Conclusion of the Analysis of the Course of Lectures delivered at the London Institution . ] We have followed Dr . Southwood Smith through his late course of lectures so far as to have given an account of the structure and action of the heart , and of the power that works it . The amount of this power , the structure and action of the arteries and veins , the use or ultimate end of all this machinery , with the view which he took of its intimate connexion with the healthy and vigorous , or the diseased and feeble state both of mind and body , it remains for us to lay
before our readers . The left ventricle of the heart , by the successive contractions of which the circulation throughout the system is effected , contracts with great force . Experiments have proved that in large animals , as in the horse , it propels the blood with a power sufficient to maintain , in
an upright tube , a column of ten feet . It is calculated that in man it exerts upon the blood it contains , a force equal to about six pounds on the square inch , or sixty pounds on the whole mass , as its inner surface contains ten square inches . There are four thousand contractions in an hour , each of which expels two ounces of blood , The
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DR . SOUTHWOOD SMITH ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL ECONOMY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/53/
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