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to our Kaglish philosophy, which sought lo find in the lower ai^imals, and in the plants, even fuculLte» of reason and of feeling, kindred with those of man. But the progress of true science is fast exploding this brutalizing form of philosophy, and the latter physiologists have sc|Xkrated the being of man into twu parts : llmt which liL- haUi in coinnioti ^^ilh other creatures, his organic structure, by which his animal life is cootinned; that is, the life of the body, which, in man and the animals, is maintained by pro- visions and processes almost alike, and which throughout the whole organic or created world, i» linked ^nid binind together by wonderful ana- logies. This department, the physiologists have now discovered to be their proper fields out of which none but sciolists and speculators watbdcr. loss THE CVVmZ AS TO B0DIt7 LABOUR. [/>£rj The rational nnd tlie moral parU, whicli have no coEUiexioD witli tilings %^tsn, and not thererortt to be aoatomized or experimenied upon, thcr leave to the tnetftphysician and tLc theologian to, treat of, after the methods that appertain to thcmJ The pkydiologiflts take unto Ihemselvcs the studjl of the habitation of the soul, not of the soul whicB dwelleth therein. The cunning artfi by which' that habitation ib buildcd up in the womb and in youth, by which it is repaired in weak and wound- ed places^ by which it is fitted for labour nnd a&* tiv]ty> and all the fuDCtions of animal life, and b^ which it declines at length and dies, and resolve* into the dements of other lives : this the phy* siolofj^sts address themselves to study by obso"- VQtions, with expcrimenu of the knife, with trials of various foods and medicines ; and in doing so they , are sludenls of the wonderful architecture wfajcb God halh dif*played ia llii& our mortal tabernacle, and servants to him so far as tiiey can : but farther they presume not to go, and none but sciolists speculate from the house to the inhabitant of the housCt v^ho is to be studied by other methoda al- together. Nay, in studying the art of nature in builriing up an:) repairing the house, the wisest of them confcf^ thc-ir o\\ni ignomnrc : they see the thing done, they see the preparations for doing it, and GO far they can lend a help, but the work- shop where nature fashiona a bone, or a muficle. or a fluid, they allow they know nothing of; only they see it \h accomplished, and they can miiiiHtt^r the suppUex of food out of which itheaccompHfih- eth it the mo^t pleasantly. Of this I could say much more, an