Volume 1

A philosophical enquiry into the nature, origin, and extent, of animal motion, deduced from the principles of reason and analogy ... / [Samuel Farr].

  • Samuel Farr
Date:
1771
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    unnatural and inconfiftent; whilft the re- pelling power carries with it more of a na- _tural, _ealy and agreeable appearance. We. _are accuftomed to the one, as I have faid, the general actions of human nature, _to which the other feems abfolutely contra- _dictory, and i in confequence of that, unna- tural. It may be obferved that by the fame powers by which we drive bodies from us, ‘we feem likewife to attract them to us; and if we confider thefe actions _aright, we fhall find that they are all of the former kind, and that the power by which bodies are attracted towards us is by an _Impulfion from the center of Motion, ‘of thofe inftruments which are employed for this purpofe *. ¥ FRoM * All the inftruments. of Motion itt out bodies are levers, which are al] acted upon by one fimple piece of mechanifm, viz. the contraction of the mutcles, and the difference of impelling and attracting depends only on the fituation in which the mufcles are placed upon the bones; the former being placed on one fide and the latter on the other: By this they obtain the 3 E , citing ulth- Be