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    it will follow , that the tedious verbiage "with which Figlinus has thought proper to introduce his account of Mr . G ^ ¦ " ' s

    death , founded upon the notion of his being a Socinian , is entirely misplaced and inappropriate ; and should he favour the public with any farther remarks upon such subjects , I would advise him to procure more correct information , particularly respecting the Socinian doctrines , with which he appears to be very superficially acquainted .

    1 cannot but regret , that any professor of Christianity should think it necessary to prop up his system of faith by such means as these . Pine religion disdains

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    London Feb . 14 , 1810 . . SIR , In perusing the letters of Mr . Parkes , on the Indestructibility of Matter , in the last volume of your Repository , I was forcibly struck with the singularity of his opinion , respecting the nature of the mind ; and if you will do me

    the favour of their insertionmyour next number , 1 will hazard on it a few remarks . Allow me , however , previously to observe , that I am not actuated by any hostile spirit , but solely by a desire to arrive at truth , by means of free

    discussion . Most materialists , I believe ^ agree with Dr . Priestley , in regarding mind as the effect of the organized structure of the brain , and likewise acknowledge , that when that structure is destroyed

    by death , mind no longer exists . Mr . Parkes , however , if I rightly understand him , supposes mind to be a distinct substance , a particle 'of very subtile matter , encased or enveloped in the grosser

    matter of the body ; and that the Deity prevents this particle , after the death of the body , fromcom-

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    the aid of sophistry , however spkndid and misrepresentation , however ingeni ous . Her temple admits none but the graceful decorations of Christian charity , and can only be supported by tht pillars of truth ,

    u meretricious graces to beguile , No clust e ring ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free , It stands , like the cerulean arch you see , Majestic in its own simplicity , " Sheffield ^ Dec . x 6 , 1809 . . B .

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    binjng with other material substances , by isolating-it , and thus preserves its identity . Now , Sir , I do not conceive , that we have the smallest grounds , a posteriori ^ for such an

    hypoever mortifying it be to our vanity ? teaches , I believe , no more . Tfhe experiment of the egg , supposed by Mr . Parkes to favour his

    thesis . All that observation and experience inform us , is ^ that , in whatever animal such an organized mass as the brain is found , mind is present ; but that when that mass is destroyed or deconi - posedj mind has no longeran existence * Sound philosophy ,

    howopinion , does not appear to me to afford it the least support . The stimulus of the calorick , acting upon its vitality or susceptibility of impression produces a developement of the rudiments of the

    chick ; and when the organization of its brain is complete ^ mind or perception follows . But I do not see any thing in this , that at all favours his hypothesis of a material atomic mind .

    Mr . Parkes , too , is not aware , perhaps , that his idea so exactly

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    122 Mr . Woodhairis RemarJis upon Mr . Parkes 6 Opinion of Mind .

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    MR . VOODHAM'S REMARKS UPOtt MR . PARKES ' S OPINION OF MINE ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/18/