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THE FEDERAL lNIO\. rOHN G. POLHILl) EDITOR. MILLfiDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAF, AUGUST 28, 1830. TOLVM& 1, NUMBER 8. tbb rsDXS&AL union ubKtM fl l 1 hrke dollars per all- in ad ft nee, or Four if not paid before the end of the The Office ia oa IV ay nt-Street, opposite Me ^mbs’ Tavern. All Advertisements published at the usual rates. Efcijh Citation by the Clerks of the Courts of Or- iiiary that application has been made for Letters of Ad- inistration, must be published Thirty days at least. Notice by Exccutois and Administrators lor Debtors d Creditors to render in their accounts must be publish- Six weeks. Sales of negroes by Executors and Administrators must e advertised Sixty days before the day of side. Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate and intestate estates by Executors and Administrators, must be advertised Forty days. Applications by Executors, Administrators and Guar dians to the court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must be published Four months. Applications by Executors and Administrators for Let- 'tcrJ Di*tnisSOiy, must be published Six MONTHS. Applications for Can closure of Mortgages on real Es- ’ tate must be advertised once a month for Six months. Sales of real estate by Executors, Administrators and O tardiuns must be published Sixty dats before the day / of sale. These sales must be made at the court-housi- door between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in J the afternoon. No sale from day to day is valid, unless so expressed in the advertisement. Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy I of the bond, qr agreement) to make titles to Land, must b« Advertised THREE MONTHS at least. Sheriff’s sales under executions regularly granted by | the courts, must he advertised Thirty days Sheriff’s s?vlcs under naortgarc executions must be ad vertised Sixty days before the day of #»le. i Sheriff’s sales of perishable property under order of Court must be advertised generally Ten days- All Orders for Advertisements will be punctually at tended to. ; *** All Letters directed to the office, or the Editor, pnust be post-paid to entitle them to attention. JVIILLLDGEViLLE MASONIC HALL LOTTBBY. 1—AnJ ril THE MANSION, COLUMBUS, GA. (IBIS large and commodious building L situated on the corner of Broad and • i Crawford streets, and in ihe very centre IBs 133 of business, is so far completed that the llfi113 undersigned is enabled to announce to his friends and the public generally, that he is now ready to receive all those who may favor him with tbeir calls. Having for a number of years been engaged in the Ta vein keeping business, he flatters himself from his experience in the above line, that he will be enabled to give general satisfaction to all those who may call at Ibe MANSION. His STABLES are spacious and well ventilated, and amply supplied with the best of provender, and attended by experiened and steady Ostlers. His BAR will at all times be filled with the choice of best Liquors, the New Orleans Market will afford. In addition to which, the undersigned will bestow his owii unremitted personal at tention, and in his charges, he will not forget the pres sure of the times. He assures the traveller, the daily boarder and all those who may honor him with their pat ronage, that they will not go awav displeased. SAMUEL B. HEAD. July 31 4 5t GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. T HE SUBSCRIBER, (late proprietor of the Globe Hotel, and more recently of the Mansion House,) begs leave to announce to his friends and the public gen erally, that he has taken that elegant and commodious fire proof Brick Building on the corner of Broad and Jackson streets, and immediately adjoining the new Masonic Hall. It is situated in the most central part of the City, and is in ’.he very heart of business—being in the vicinity of the Augusta Bank, and the Branch bank of the State of tieor- On Thursday, the 4th dau of her next, * ia ’. . ..., ., , lL nnTrT - *■ - ■ Tins establishment is known as the GLOBE HOTEL, and in its interior arrangement and general construction. wq tfc TrtiRD ftAV’S DRAWING will positively H flgcc—Z\ which time, the Wheel will be in fuel) situation, as far holders of Tickets to reasonably calculate on some respectable prizes. A nobler chance for a fortune, in the way of Lottery, was never present Li to the public. All who may feel disposed to porchise (Tickets, would act wisely, to buy, in the MtlledgemUt Ufatonic Hall Lottery before the next drawing. Tin- Lo.- ferj is at borne, and though you should be unfortunate, there is sliU the advantage that the money will be in cir culation amongst us, and added to this, the chance is cer tainly very good to realize ten or fifty times the amount expended for Tickets. On examination of the different drawings, it will be seen that ihe, small prizes are scry much diminished, leaving in the Wheel nearly all of the valuable ones—It will also be recollected, that the prizes tinder two hundred dollar*, were deposited ia the wheel at the commencement of the drawing, and that tnere are Jet to be deposited, prizes from two hundred up to 30,000 DOLLARS! ■Which certainly holds out the strongest inducement to pur- /cliasers. _ . At the next Drafting the following Splendid Fri zes will he floating: OF 8500 “ 500 “ 4U0 •* 400 •• siro “ 300 *« 300 “ 300 « 200 •• 21)0 ' “ 100 •• 50 unites in an eminent degree, spaciousness, neatness, and comfort. To the man of family, the individual traveller, the daily boarder, or the fashionable visiter, the GLOBE presents accommodations inferior to noneiu the Southern Statsq. Having conducted for a number of years, two among the most popular Hotels in this City, he flatters himself that bis experience in business, added to the superior advanta ges of situation and the resources under his eontroul, will enable him to give the most decided satisfaction to all who muy honor him with their patronage. His STABLES are spacious and well ventilated, and amply supplied with the best of provender, and at tended by experienced and steady Ostlers—in addition to which, the subscriber will bestow bis own personal un remitting attention, and in hisebarges, will not furget the pressure of the times. FHVSXOLOCHT. DR. GORMAX’9 ADDRESS* Before the Medical Faeq/tif phi- Society of Phil adelphia, being an tnqwnj'int? ffce Philoso phy or Nature and R^rattons of Life. with the view to appreciate and discriminate between the laws purely physical, and the vi tal laws, in the phenomena of organization; and to determinate, the Nature of Disease, of Therapeutical Agents, &c. [con tinted.) v From language let us turi to things. No part of nature reposes Life is a contin ued effort; in body each atom struggles with its fellow s*to4n—worlds, with worlds. Rest is only apparent. The mountain, by whose huge pile, Nature would leave proof to mortals of her mighty strength,—or monument, on which he inscribed the age of the world, when it was Whv assists in all these operations, and becomes a torch to light the .animals’ footsteps. Tbeir coaatuses or efforts continually t*ndto, and ter - -sed, we jnay conclude, the empire or our and after alt the great expectations, it once excited, and tfi&valuable discoveries, it prona- inmate in organization and intellection, whicl are mundaniety. These vital properties appear to be incapa ble of action by their own unaided abilities, and require the instrument of previously orga nized substance through which atone they can display their efforts. They never, therefore, could have originated the organizations, we &ee them now evolve, in the various tribes of li'iog creatures, but must at first have receiv ed \bem ready formed by creation. The or ganisms then of the first animals were formed by a process, and in a manner altogether diffe rent frem any, which have since existed, or the vital properties themselves must then have possessed powers, of which no vestige remains. Endowed essentially ns life is with the abilities to evolve organization, to pass out. and trans- ims niigniy smigg.e-inm itself to new forms, nothing was necessary universal existence, « which all the 5mra- L (hc b innj but ', he b J„„ nien , of , ts t,oos ol things, with quick step, puss to tang, ln f ltun) *„ ti „ rganisIn , l0 €Dab | e it , 0 and repnssr Minute abservaHon „,ll sh» o . its generation,: compete with death, that preservation 19 made i» depend upon et- ... - & a~.il r. r iort Accordingly each bfiWr." fnsmedta act | roCC ! h if Im few ?un.‘an& after t Il| f pBysfcaf bo- conservatively in two ways: In the de-lj^ U p 0 n it operates, we may suppose have fence of its own existence. S?d I» that of its un dergone much change from the ceaseless ac- svstem. And for this last pnrposecarniverous t j v ;,y c f (i ie aflluities, which impel their forms appetite was given. Animals prey upon their L* orwar< j t W e see it still fresh and vigorous fellow-animals, bodies, upon bocies, and if[unexhausted, inexhaustible. comets be solar aliment, which is digested, and Contrarily to life, which can only evolve its regurgitated in the shape oi oar day-light, forms through the adjnvitant agency of previ- worlds upon worlds. ously existent organism, the abilities ofphysi- !f I hen all the actions of matter tend exclu-1 ca j bodies, at least those of chemistry, for we sively to the conservation cf its own system, 1 j {ncw nothing in this respect of those belong- and all its energies look to that end. the spon-1 j n ura niology, for recorporification or de- (aneous production and support of animal ex-1 ve j opemen t of tbeir forms, appear tobeessen- ’ i r a 1 * li . _ l. A .!l« lliA IiA. I _ * • • . 1 ... A a/aa * Iv/lfYirol 1’AC knowledge remains pretty meek the same, oft the score of ks agency. What then is evident to our senses and our reason in the study of the living economy. 9 —* That lifers a peculiar substance, as are matter and mind, whose times* to react upon physical bodies, and other stimuli, we call contractility and sensibility—that these bodies furnish the raw material, out of wLich it elaborates the tis sues ol ere a tores—that the conatuses of these same bodies, oo the one side, move to and sus tain its actions; and on the other, its move* inents are sustained by a force of mind, voli tion, corporeal conatuses modified, and reflect* ed through the brain, attracting by desire, or repelling by fear, sensations, which accompany them. The situation of life then in the great mechanism of cat ore, is between these *wo classes ot stimulations; its re actions upon which are the vital functions. The mind^.ac tuated by the forces of bodies without, by im pressions from some parts ot' the economy, or the vital properties, which are tne iniewdfcMHi* functions... The two constitute all that active animal existence is; and is the sum of those ef forts, which secures its conservation. We see that it is the forces of the vital pro per! ies, which causes bodies to assume the or ganic state—that if these properties become extinct in any part of a living body, that part separates, not as is commonly supposed by the efforts oflife in the living parts; but by the ef forts of the molecules, themselves, which quit the state, in which the vital properties had left them, in obedience to the laws, which preside and impossible. Had there been nothing then, 1 j a y ^ oyvn the stream of time. beside the seeds or primordia of body, sown in the fields of space, till yet there had existed nothing but matter. In order, therefore, to turn this matter to gnnrl acoount, or malce it instrumental in the existence of a new being, nature, as we may say, was under necessity of fixing upon a certain, convenient model or de- enmstance, that the separation takes place, ToTrace! step by step, the operations of the I and not to any effort of the living, to throw off two vital properties, I have mentioned, in the the dead parts. . ... . two vital properues, f , L —I If then, on the extinction of life, the moIe< \ h 1 FRIZF. OF SiO.OOO 1 PRIZE 1 do i€ 10.000 1 do 1 do Cl 5,000 1 do 1 du • f 1,000 1 do 1 do • I 1,000 1 do 1 do tffl 900 1 do 1 do M 900 1 do 1 - do «f 800 1 do I do • • 800 1 do 1 do Cl 800 1 do . 1 do fl 708 19 do 1 do <1 COO 37 do 1 do it 50(5 besides 2 PRICE OF TICKETS. Wholes $ 10—Halves $5-Quarters $2 50 ICT* ORDERS addressed t» Wyat' Foard, Secretary fn the Commissioners, post-paid, will mu.t ">t 1 ^roinp. attention. _ _ , ~ WYATT FOAi-i ZJ, Secretary to the Sjotiimissioners. Tl » iy T7 ^ tf *OO JHTj X70TARIAI* & LBTT3R SISALS, 1.1NGRWED BV T. FOGT.F. B li at the subscriber's JewcUry Store, who would respectfully in- 1 fi.rm the public that he has con stantly on band, a general assort ment of ^ Watches, Jewellry, Plate, Cutlery, Military Goods. <$*c. Clocks, Watches, Musical Boxes, Jewellry, and Plate neatly repaired. Millcd^eville, Aus. 7 * sCP The Charleston Stages arrive at the Globe Ho tel, every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, at 6 o’clock. & depart every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornir> at nan pasrs. s nt'« — r" , 5.“ ^nar-s every Tuesday and Saturday rooming, at S arrives every Wednesday and Sunday cve- n* at 6 o’c'ock. The Elbcrton Stage departs every Sutulay Lm.nf.a, 4 o’clock, cod arrive,ever,Fnd.J evening at 6. The Pendleton Stage departs every Tues- day" a?4 o’clock in the morning, "nd amves every Mon- dav at 2 o’clock in the evening. The Milledgevtlle , U g arrives every day except Thursday, at 7 o’clock in >hc evc- ning, nnd departs every day except Wednesday, at J o - dock in the morning. The Savannah Stage arrives eve ry Monday Wednesday and Friday, at 10 o’clock in the serves its integrity. We shall afterwards see what circumstances or considerations weighed in the construction of this model; in other words, what it is that determines the animal forms and properties, or separate portions of J their device. Animals, then, admit strictly of a philosophi clock in the mqrniag. lay IVeanesdr.j morning, and departs every Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs *>' “ r S. ua SHANNON. Augusta, Oct. !, 1829 196 L. PERKINS. 3t LAIf ITOKO’S. UiE Copartnership in 'he PRACTICE ol H e LAW heretofore existing between Samuel Loutfur 4' Jred Iverson, is this day dissolved by mutual consent— A. Iverson having transferred his interest in said Part nership to John L. Lewis. A Copartnership has been this day formed between Samuel Lowtbsn & John L. Lewis, who will aitendto the Practice Of the Law in the Oemtilgee, Flint and °o»ith- ern Circuit*. They will gem-raMy be found at their office in Clinton, when not absent on 'be Circuit. A. Iverson will, during the present year, remote to Columbus, and practice Law in nil the counties of I he Chatahoochie Circuit and in those of the Southern Cir cuit where hi* services may be required. Tbe services of A. Iverson will he rendered in winding up the business W Of LowtUer & Ivcr*oo in the Ocmulgec Circuit. , v SAMUEL LOWTHER, ALFRED IVERSON, JOHN L. LEWIS. Clinton, June 19,1 PoO. 234m4m ENTERTAINMENT. THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that he has leased the HOUSE recently occupied by Mrs. Flemming, in Marion, Twiggs county, ond will be prepared by the last ol this month to accommodate TRAVELLERS and other persons who may favor him with their patron- aire His House is situated in tbe most pleasant part of the village and in the immediate vicinity of the o.,.irt house. lie pledges himselfto render bis personal and un remitting attention to the comfort and accommodation of all who may be disposed to favor ^VER?"* ge I'arion, August 15, 1830 CALL AND SEE! THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has opened a HOUSE of ENTERTAINMENT in Carrollton, Carroll county, «•*. and fitters himself that he will give as gener- aTsaLstacUorTto all lhat may favor bim with their patron age as anv other Inn-Keeper in as newly setUed country os this—Though Carroll county has been kept ,n the back ground, defamed and shaded by reports, yet} hope! «H will soon be bloivn away by the sunshine of virtue, nuj tured by the Gospel of Christ, and tbe ‘nstrmMionof a,ts “ So cal! and see C. McOARTx. —225 tf and scicnces- April 24- I A NEW MAP OF GEORGIA. T HE subscribers have now under the hands of the Engraver in New Vork, a complete and splendid Map of the State of Georgia, the greater part compiled from actual survey, with ail the districts carefully laid down and numbered, the «.hole completed with great la bor and exactness from the latest ond most authentic in formation, in a style not inlerior to any thing of the kind yet presented to the public, with a table of distances froin the Seat of Government to every county site or place or importance in the State. The districts in the new pur chase and lower counties are all numbered in the corners, vo as to enable • person to ascertain the exact situation Of any lot of land, and will be painted and finished off in the neatest manner—apart of them canvassed varnished •nd nlaeedon rollers, the balance will be on thin paper nicely folded in morocco covers, and will be for sale in Milledgeville by the first of Octobei next. Those on rol lers atFioe Dollars, and the pocket map cf the same size ^Person^nSding at a distance wishing to procure the a 0 go ha sending by their members, as a suffi- Seat wmb«r of Stem "ill b« kept in Milledfpwilie Jur ‘ n 6 «*—*•>^u^TXrlton WELLBORN Ju|y , t ORANGE GREEN. JOB PRINTING, NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. FACTORAGE 153 avd COIOCISSIOH BUSINESS* fTTttE under,ton-.-d grnlefulljaeknowMee the liberal T pntron^ -'ich the, here b«n f«or«d above line, and respectfully inform thepuM'C thatthey continue its transaction in the City, and that their f aiU fol and undivided attention will be devoted to the busi ness of tticlr patrons. Produce Liberal Cush advances may be expected on Produce, fee. in Store, when fc SIMMONS. Aquti. Aug. 7, 1830 5 GEORGIA, HABERSHAM COUNTY Superior Court, April Term, I8J0. BULB NISI. r 1 appearing to the Court that John Lecroy wa* in p * session of i Deed of Gift, given by Tuscorago Sboe- boots to four negroes in the said deed named, * c £Py °f which i^filedilTSeoffice rfth.Clerk jf and that the same is lost or destroyed—It is therefore or dered by the CoiV't, That the copy so filed a. aforesaid bc’iMtsblUdied inueu of the origiual so lost ordertroye unless cause to the contrary be proven on or before the first day of the next term of said Court; and that a copy of this Rate be served, or published in terms of the law in the Statesman & Pstrio M j note 4^ j„ ne |g30. A true copy ko jqhn ^ CAR ^ c g c | jonclfl *53 . imprecoation of ihe ovum; the changes, they . .. . produce upon surrounding bodies, iu elaborat- cules spontaneously leave the state in which inc the materials—Ihe way, in which they dis- they previously existed, it is proof that all the pose of these materials in the different struc- lime, they were in this state, they controoally „ . ... turcs; the manner, in which their actions are exerted their physical properties, whose force rice for that being, and of arming it with such susta j ne d by physical bodies or adjuvitant ef-l was only overcome, and held insuspention by powers, as should enable it to re act efficiently I |- ortg bodies stimulation; by the stimulations! the superior force oflife. And it is in this way, upon this matter, turn its productive tenden-j ofthe wi ,j 0 f t t ie mobile, animal matters, the I matter becomes a material iu the existence of cies from the natural direction, and conduct I HJooii. lymph. &c—the ties, which connect all a being foreign to it in all its properties; and them to new results. Such precisely are an ‘ L or g an s into one harmonious, respondent, I shows us how nature economises her means; reals. This model runs through the zoologi- who j e j n a wor( j f to investigate and trace the and multiplies her producliots, as we may say, cal scale, admits of modifications, but P re * | actions of life from its first impressions upon I by her ingenuity. dead matter up to organization and intellection, I We have spoked of life as possessing no would constitute a complete system of physiol- self moving power, but merely susceptibilities ogy. Such a system, however, I humbly con-1 to motion, all its actions proceeding from slim* ceive the day will never come, in which the I illations. genius of a man, however happily born, will be I Let us examine the soixrce of these stimula- able to present to his fellow man. ltions: Nature, it would seem, in excutihg her work, I 1. Physical matter resists the organic action ^ cal definition. Theu are corporeal bodies 2»|A:j t h at which appeared to her most fit and) of life, but is overcome bylife’ssuperiorim- n hirherists a substance, to which Iheujw a their«lxich sus-pends th-« v ' jui.«uw., ~j-*—-• 'o' * mature entirfly ***T a || erwar j 9 to place to the human mind. Andjculoc. W Lj c |o Jj- . l combination; traneous and foreign to matter, more powerjul jf hcr vvork rema ; ns as s he finished it. moving and it yield's to orgatuzalion. We should ob- and energetic in its operations, lhan that priori Qn harmonious silence, in the concealment of serve all the physical properties of matter are pie, which impels chemical elements through ihe ^ e fl- orlS( by which she matured it, she has I not affected by the vis organics, but only those, endless mutation of form., or worlds, in their or- L p t room (- or j ar an< j discord in the thought I which preside over its forms, or the mutation bits Previously to the possibility of the exis- ^ maI|t which contemplates, and investigates l of its forms, for we see living bodies gravitate, tenceof a living organized form, thse two pow- L an d the noise and tumult ofhis philosophy exert eXtensioD. &c. as others do. Part of the <*rful principles or modifers of the cor P orea M w ’arfaring murmurs along the path ofhis gene-1 organized matter is so formed, as to contain phenomena, must be subdued and held in sub rat ; ong the principles of motion to other parts, and be* ' jugation, but not annihilated, as we shall pre- The edifice of science forever remains.— I come their stimulators. Such are the fluids sent ly discover. This substance of such won-1 p os tcrity looks back discontented upon the J in the sanguiferous and absorbent systems, derful efficacy in overcoming the natural ef-1 |be '; r f orc f a thers reared, and imagining 2( j T he mo i ecu i ar motion of physical bo. torts and tendencies ol bodies, and compelling themse i ves better architects, take it down to dies js reciprocal; and its tendency, as 1 bav© them to yield results foreign to themse ves, ls J rebuild upon a more perfect model. Their I js to persevere in tbe same state, or to life. ..-. successors likewise were dissatisfied, and do J c b a nge the form. The tendencies of these Sensibility and contractility const 1 u e 1 e s jbe same, and in this way, it continues to bel bodies upon bodies organized, is exactly the offensive armour, with which it assauts c < mi j (]isjiointe<i and rebuilt, but pretty much always! reverse The action is no longer reciprocal; al bodies, overcomes the impulse^ y w icj ©f the same materials; and perhaps, will I |f^ e i r impetus penetrates and pervades the or- evef continue to be done so. A Hunter, a g an jj5ed body, as in muscular contraction, while Braussais, or a Physic, may imagine they see no corre sponding change is observed to take some part uncouth or imperfectly done, they I p| ace in (hem. For the action to be recipro* toil hard their days, to straighten out and fin-J ca j t be vital forces must first be overcome its ish what appeared incomplete. We rejoice t b e a { 0 ms, which reciprocate, and then they for the ev’er-enduring remembrance of our age I w jjj ex bibii no mure the non-reciprocating’ and name, but (hev are lost in the dilapidation I q U .,|jty until they undergo the process of reor* or misplacement of the things, upon which we I g a nizati<>n. It is in this way, physical bodies place them lor the portage ol time. I excite motions and changes id livirg bodies, We, whose vision is belter adopted for the! which pervade the whole system oflife, while volume of a ivorld, lhan foi the atom near us, they, themselves suffer no exhaustion of power, in the sublimity of our vanity, imagine, that we 1 nor lee! any change in the great changes and ^re boru to the heritage of natures privy coun- movements they impart, cils and secrets; and, that if we do not know I 3d. Matter, which is the product or refuse them all, it is because we have misemployed I of organization—-the urine—the feces, kc. our talents, and the means, we have at com-1 4^. Mind, in the shape of volition, exerci* mand. Accordingly we smothen out what is j ses contractility, and becomes a source of vital rough, people that which is dark and write I mo vements. The state of mind we call voli* round systems of philosophy. How admira- j- on owes jj s origin either to the impressions of b!y wise was that sage, who left his work un- t be living organs sent to the brain, requiring* finished to signify, he did not understand all. I c |, an g C ©f posture, focommotion, organic move. The ancients believed in occult qualities; we I men ( S f or the gratification of some want, or as- have exploded them, substituted other names j s - s , aBCe [ or t be expulsion of offensive matter for things, nature never knew, and write books (* roni SO me cavity.—-in a word, from impres- about them to explain their nature and opera- ' tions. Ol if Nature could laugh, she must have bursled before now. Physiology, with some other sciences, has been attempted to he improved by improving the senses,—by opening up to view those re gions, which lie beyond their unaided efforts Accordingly in the field of the microscope, for the most part the fairy land of science, a new world has been brought to light. Those, who have drawn on the chart of knowledge the fig ure and descriptive mechanism of this world, have differed infinitely; and we read in their works little other than the collision and dis cordance of opinion. The truth is the microscope is a sublime dreamer, and he who befievingly consults it, will have unfaithfully unfoulded to him glori ous visions, which captivate hv their novelty and splendor. He describes things true to.his mind’s impressions, which have no other ex istence, than what is engendered by the in- impingment of a ray of light against circumam bient atoms; and his mind becomes the sport the play thingof sunbeams. Its revelations of the interstitial world, in the main, are to tb* philosopher pretty much what the cave $f Montesinos was to the Knight of £0 Maa^hf; Gill Uvlilvft| Vl v 1 * r 1 their molecules move; spoils their forms; and imparts to them a new arrangement foreign to (heir unmolested tendencies,- suitably to its own purposes. In other words, they express the phcnominal connection of the substance of life with the substance of bodies, through which life acts upon these bodies, and consti tute the antecedence ot which the animal phe nomena are the sequence; and stand precisely in the same relation to th se phenomena, as do attraction and its modifications to the cor poreal phenomena Since, therefore, the vital, predominate over the corporeal energies, those, who admit life only to an adjectival existence, constituted ol the sum of its functions, ought to allow body only a still mere empty and shadowy nature. And those who adopt these views of the sub ject, cannot, with propriety, admit the exis tence of secondary causes in nature, hut will he compelled to regard all the phenomena of nature, as so many direct, individual acts of the Creator. This philosophy savours of that of occasion al causes, whose beautiful fabric once towered magnificently in the literary horizon of France, and fixed upon it the admiring gaze ol men.— But the eye of posterity has looked back upon it ; and with the genius, that reared it, its glo ry has sunk into ruins. It is virtually no other than pantheism, which is as dangerous to re ligion, as false to philosophy. As we know many of the chemical elements which are cognizable to us alone by the effects, they produce upon other bodies; so we can know life only by the effects it produces—as the cause of oiganization and its phenomena. I would not insinuate—far be it from me: that it is of a chemical or material nature, but only that it is of a substantive nature of its own kind, as are the two other substances, I have mentioned, whose phenomena with life s. is the visible universe. The u*o ffiodes, by which it acts, constitute the feondation for the clas- sitication of the function, and terminate in two great results, which tend to conservation in two different ways. Speaking in very gene ra! language, the one breaks tbe fetters which hold in union surroonding bodies; endows them with fresh powers for combination; and monlds them into definitive forms or apparatuses by ( which some valuable end is to he accomplish ed ia the device, they constitute. The other sions sent to tbe brain from some internal or gan, or impressions transmitted to tb.e senses from without coming from what exists around. Both sorts of impressions converge and meet in the cephalic centre, and are distributed and radiated thence tbrongb the organs. If the minds reaction upon the forces flow ing upon tne senses from things without, be at tended with delightful and joyous feeling, tend ing to conservation, the objects from which they come are called good to signify this sort of feeling. But on the contrary, if the mind’s reaction be accompanied with pain, tending to destruction, the objects, from which these im pressions are derived, are called evil. These two opposite states of the nervous system, before men had learned the analysis of thought, underwent personification, and receiv ed a separate and independent existence. Tbe good and the evil were not supposed to attach to objects, hut .to two great intelligent princi ples or spirits, which divided between them the empire of nature. Accordingly our fere-fath* ers in the wilds of Germany and ihe plains of Scandinavia, finding themselves unable to con trol or modify their incorrigible tendencies, reared tip spacious temples or dedicated to (JkejQjaured places, with hope to appease