Remarks on scepticism, especially as it is connected with the subjects of organization and life : being an answer to the views of M. Bichat, Sir T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence upon those points / by Thomas Rennell.

  • Rennell, Thomas, 1786-1824.
Date:
1819
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    Upon which passage Richardson makes the following obser- vation. The three kinds of life, rising as it were by steps, the vegetable, animal, and rational, of all which man partakes, and he only ; he grows as plants, minerals, and all things inanimate; he lives as othec animated creatures, but is over and above endued with reason.— Newton s edition. Page 79. Is endowed also with the means of producinq its kind-l This will not hold good in tliose cases, where the laws of natural production have been previously violated— as in the instance of a mule. Page 86. Jf we consider the various qualities of matter,'] Whoever is desirous of seeing these points discussed much more at large, will find great satisfaction in reading Dr. S. Clarke's Letter to Mr. Dodwell, and Lis defences of it. See Clarke's Works.ybZ. edit. vol. iii.; also Baxter on the Soul, sect. v. p. 158 ; and Woolaston's Religion of Nature, sect, ix p. 186. In the last of these works the argument is drawn up in the simplest and most compendious form. Page 96. ' Although it cannot he accurately determined in how long a time the whole body undergoes an entire change ] Attempts have been made to determine the period at which the body is completely renovated ; it has been said that an interval of seven years was required for one set of molecules to disappear and be replaced by others; but this change must go on more rapidly in child' hood and in youth Richeraud's Physiology, p- 243. Though considerable diflerences exist among the Physio!o'< .gists, as to the rationale of absorption, the facts are ad- mitted and argued upon by all. P. 96. We have reason to think, says Buisson.] On connolt peu des absorbans de la dure mere et du cer- veau. * * * Plusieurs injections fines cnt rendu sensible sur le cervoau, de.> vaisseaux, qui par leur disposition, par leur
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