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      incident is able to produce . Having arrived at a "**»* % ' miifce different from that contemplated by Mr . J . S . Mim , Mi . Iewes claims for each ganglion the ability to give rise to sensations anTobserves ,- " whBn a wasp is cut in two both halves live , and ¦ manifest sensibility , ( if we assume a wasp ever manifests it and is ' ? ot a mere machine ) during three or four days . < ffyywntatefflj half—the head , it will bite : if you irritate the other half— the tail . it wMstimr" In another place he describes experiments with a Son , whose brain was removed , and claims for the movements of this and similarly situated creatures both " spontaneity and choice , fsenSlity and volition . " In the case of another tnton , whose snine was divided , he supposes the same qualities to have been exertised by the posterior portion . The cases cited by Mr .. Lewes no doubt ? present great difficulties , but his own theories rather add to than remove them . ' The subject is worth the attention of a profound physiologist , and cannot be treated with advantage in a few chapters of a popular work .

      Mr. Gtlfillan's Theology.* Writer

      MR . GTLFILLAN'S THEOLOGY . * writer

      May 12 , 1860 . ] The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 451

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      T HE reputation of Mr . Gilfillan as an eloquent auu * . ubit ouTcritic stands so high , that any work from hw pen must excite more than ordinary interest : when that work comb jW with a flowery and enthusiastic style , what is evidently intended to be an entke system of Christian theology , it ought to command the Sous attention of thinkers . We have ^™^ % $ ™ ' gltom the earnest study of the two volumes before us ; and if we xise tiom ou ? task not aUgether satisfied it is with regret tha ; we are < 30 mpelled to withhold our unqualified approbation trom a work ot great talent but more showy than profound . „ The poetSal aspects of religion have evidently more attraction for ¦ m va ° " ? And witho-t « ,, » wirfom , « . «« - mow «^ , it would be indeed impossible to reeoBinsei the Inud ltselt , wlHdl is b ^ . e ?^^^ Kr ? 5 ai ^ Tis&Tffi ^^ Kinff " vantod but a Socratic method , involving a careful dohnvtio ^ nofEternity and a no less careful distinction between things yWch , though no ? ordinarily 8 epnrnto in senBiblo oxporience , are not ' ^ GimSZxi proceeds to the Fall of the Angel * and adopts liJ ? naS ive of Milan ' s " Pamdise Lost , " as if it were the same ffl ^ W-SSBTi StS « 0 ^ - «^ Virtue , and Oo .

      ^ is S dated S at the time of the Messiah « E s ascension M into S heaven « ; and Milton , with the mystics whom he followed , were in error in placing the grand celestial battle before creation , and supposing that the second verse of Genesis described a chaotic state of the earth as its consequence . Ml this , it has been proved , is merely fantastic . t assumption , ahd' has no warranty in the Sctiptures , critically interpreted ? TheSatanof the Old Testament is merely a tempter and a seducer of women , not a warrior . On the origin of evil , indeed , Mr Gilfillan is confessedly heretical . " Manichewsm , he says , is not the truth , but it is nearer the truth than those theories whtch mahe God the author of sin . " Evil came from . ^^ me other " ouarter" is the undignified phrase by which Mr . Gilfillan announces his belief in a second Creator , who introduced « a net * tk ' mttta ' 1 Mr ? GUfillan to fight this battle out with more orthodoVSommentators , and particularly with the prophet Isaiafa ^ wh o strenuously affirms all that Mr . Gilfillan denies , ^ e now come to h is doctrine of Creation , which , as we have seen , he makes to take place in Time , and not in Eternity ; suspectmg that , by the latter assumption : the eternity of matter is implied . Here , again , is an SrorSn- purely from the want of definition . What . is matter ? or rlther whaHs m eant by the term ? Is it the phenomenal that is ^ tended ^ r the substantial ? The former is but temporary sen . StLn the tatter is a spiritual being . Mr . Gilfillan would not like ¦ &Tst ^ ia ^^ iM ^ & 5 ; faTcSlif confession ; bat wo have yet to learn ttat theo ogy nnd ESFJSfa ^ £ ^ ffWa »^ - re ' ^ ° ? en V i ' tf Mr . Gilfillan delivers himself from Ms geological reveries and appeals to Scripture Man , he boldly J ^ ; was wsmmm ¦ ans ^ gsaSw 333 £ ? ^ as ^ SBBz ^ i dt ^ t ^ t . Mr . Gilfillan has provided in these volumes .

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      ^ TrrRS--CfftiPBa 7 ^ hen ^ be « t ~ to ^ t ^ ttt- ^^ jVI excursion notwithstanding the enormous excitemen ^ naturalshe was on pleasure bent she had . a frugal mind . In this 1 espect the female Gilnin seems to us to have been an exception to the vule , for SghVis true that habit is second nature yet this second iiura w far from being ineradicable , and , in spite of Cowpoi a Woine most commonly any unexpected incident which changes mmmimmm mmim mm ^ NsfiiHHiissI Bfm ^ mm SS FJH ^ iSJ ^ SSKS ^ Vic 4 o Plaltr . P « r Paul Foooow . Paris : Ury , I 860 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 12, 1860, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2347/page/15/