Natural theology : or, evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity : collected from the appearances of nature . hiblishal hv .^-ford. ^cJli: PARTS OF ANIMALS, &C. 79 quired, is passed through a cartilaginous ring, atwhich it is reverted, exactly in the same manneras a rope in a ship is carried over a block or rounda stay, in order to make it pull in the directionwhich is wanted. All this, as we have said, ismechanical ; and is accessible to inspection, ascapable of being ascertained, as the mechanismof the automaton in the Strand. Suppose the au-tomaton to be p
Natural theology : or, evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity : collected from the appearances of nature . hiblishal hv .^-ford. ^cJli: PARTS OF ANIMALS, &C. 79 quired, is passed through a cartilaginous ring, atwhich it is reverted, exactly in the same manneras a rope in a ship is carried over a block or rounda stay, in order to make it pull in the directionwhich is wanted. All this, as we have said, ismechanical ; and is accessible to inspection, ascapable of being ascertained, as the mechanismof the automaton in the Strand. Suppose the au-tomaton to be put in motion by a magnet, (whichis probable,) it will supply us with a comparisonvery apt for our present purpose. Of the mag-netic effluvium, we know perhaps as little as wedo of the nervous fluid. But, mao-netic attractionbeing assumed, (it signifies nothing from whatcause it proceeds,) we can trace, or there can bepointed out to us, with perfect clearness and cer-tainty, the mechanism, viz. the steel bars, thewheels, the joints, the wires, by which the motionso much admired is communicated to the fingersof the
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