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    At the close of Prop . 22 , where the first chapter of the Observations ends , are remarks ( scholium generate ) extending through six pages . In the former of these , the author describes the application of the united

    principles of vibration and association to medicine , the phenomena of memory and dreams * logic , and especially -ethics , as conducive to the cultivation of morals . He considers , through the two next pages , an objection to his Theory , as detracting from the immaterial ! tv of the human soul . The

    substance of these pages now forms the conclusion ( pp . 511 , 512 , ) of the first volume of the Observations and of Priestley ' s Hartley * ( pp , 345 , 349 , ) except that , ** according to Mai * Branched is substituted for " secundum Cartesinm "

    Next follows a paragraph , designed to shew that , if we consider the immortality of the soul as depending on religion and the Divine attributes , this Theory , which is calculated to confirm our faith in these , cannot be opposed to that doctrine . The piece then , concludes with the following

    passage : " Religion is * autem revelatae , ut de ek praecipue dicam , nitorem et firmitatem semper increscere , una , cum verae scientiae increments , manifestum erit cuivis recoJenti , quot et quanta ejus documenta a viris eruditis et piis

    prolata sint , ex quo instaurari coepit res literaria , in regionibus hisce occidentalibus . Neque licebit alicui , ut inihi quidem videtur ( quicquid vel ipse in animo habeat , vel inde profecturum suspicentur alii ) veritatem

    qnamiibet novam eruere , qum simul Itfcem affuudat religioni Christianas , veritatum omnium principio et fini ; acceleretque exoptatissimum illudsaeculum futurum , sub quo omnia tandem subjicienda sunt ei , qui est via , et veritaset vita : * P . 125 .

    soever rude and uncertain , under the form of mathematical demonstrations , as best calculated to ascertain the full force and meaning- of the points in discussion . * But as tn revealed religion , of which

    I principally speak , its brightness and evidence hav *» always increased with --the acquisitions of g-enuiire science . It is ma * nife&t , to every reflecting mind wbat great mid numerous proofs , on this subject , have been affo /< led by foamed and piou « men .

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    This publication does not appear to have been known to the * author ^ family , or to Dr . Priestley ; and among Dr . Hartley ' s Pieces , in the catalogue of printed books in the British

    Museum , there is only the Leyden edition of the Dissertiitio . Should any of your readers ^ know of any attention excited by the publication of the Cbn * - jectur < B , which I have here described from the Bath edition of the JDis $ ertatio , in my possession , I shall thank them to send you early information * J . T . RUTT .

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    Mr . Jevans in Reply to A . % i on Idolatry . £ 0 i

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    Bloxham , Sir , July 19 , 1818 . WAS pleased to see in your Mis-I cellany , [ p . S 66 J the account that

    A . Z . gives of his change of sentiment from Trinitarianism to Unitarianism ; and the more so , because it was effected by the extravagant length to which Trinitarianism was carried in his place of worship . It has been

    in these western regions , evqr since the revival of letters . Nor , in my judgment , can any one ( whatever he may design or others expect from him ) , establish any * new truth , without , at the same time , pouring- some light oa Christianity , the heginning * and the end of all truths , and thus accelerating that ardently-desired future age , when all things shall be iiihdued unto him who is the way , the truth and the Ufe . .

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    Sir , August 4 , 1818 . IF Obscurus [ pp . 447—449 ] has ac * tually seen * or otherwise ascertained that 0 e # is the reading of the Vatican manuscript , in the text , Acts xx . 28 , there is sin end of all contro ~ versy upon the subject , and Scripture criticism is under obligation to him for having set this question at rest .

    Still I think that the Editors of the Improved Version are not greatly to be censured for not having cited the Vaticau manuscript in favour of a reading upon the authority of Birch * when that learned Professor himself explicitly retracts the testimony he

    had given . 1 hough it must be confessed , that his having first set down the remarkable reading God , as being found in the Vatican manuscript , and afterwards totally forgetting every circumstance relating to it , is not a little extraordinary . B .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/29/