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      rather an incumbrance than an advantage to his moral speculations . It merely complicates the subject . The arrangement of moral and animal faculties would have been mpre intelligible without the constant reference to their supposed physical organs , and we question whether the author ' s inquiries would not have Jed him to a better arrangement .

      Independently of his system , there is much worth and interest in many of the remarks , facts , and illustrations , with which the author has presented us , and especially in those which relate to the outward and inward morality .

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      The Natural History of Animalcules . By Andrew Pritchard . Many must have felt the want , which this volume supplies , on a curious and interesting topic . Who would not know something of beings , organized living beings , of some of which ( even taking the largest individuals of the species ) * a cubic inch would contain 884 , 736 millions ?' Here they are , described , classified , many particulars of their habits noted , their forms shown in engravings beautifully executed , and of course prodigiously magnified ; together with directions for obtaining

      them , and observing them by means of the improved achromatic microscope of the author . The strange forms of these creatures could never have been imagined without observation ; nor their methods of propagation ; one of which is by the spontaneous division of the parent by symmetrical , transverse , longitudinal , or diagonal section ; and another , by * a distribution of the internal substance of the parent into a proportionate number of young ones , all of which at their birth issue forth , and leave behind them nothing but the envelope , soon to be dissolved . ' This work is like a peep into a new world .

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      Note * on Lord John Russell ' s Marriage Bill . By a Dissenting Minister . The acute writer of this pamphlet does not ' slay the slain / for the Dissenters' Marriage Bill had so little vitality that it could not stay tc be killed , but went out of itself like the snuff of a candle . However , he dissects the dead with the hand of a skilful operator . One point we do not remember to have seen elsewhere noticed ; the expensive ness of the

      BilL He reckons up particular items which show that , taking the number of marriages as in the year 1 S 30 , the Dissenters would have to pay 11 , 000 / . per annum to the Church , besides the fees to their own ministers . Truly the Whigs have cleverly managed this * practical grievance compact with the magnates of dissent .

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      458 Critical Notice *

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      The Scheme of Crtaiion . By E . W . Cox . This publication consists of four Lectures , delivered to the Mechanics ' Institute , at Taunton , on ilia quaintl y expressed subjects , ' Where am I ? What am I ? ' and * Why am 1 ?* The answers to these questions comprise 'An Outline of Human Knowledge , and the Harmony of Nature with Christianity , * Should the evening readings , recommended by our oorreipondent , * On the Diffusion of Knowledge amongst the R&ople , ' be established , the ** Lectures would be an excellent supply for the reader * We have not room to analyse their contents , but we recommend them * t well adapted for tfcat purpose .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/76/