Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.

the deductions not only of Hugh Miller, from pre-Adamite nature, but also with Dr. Alfred Smee, upon this subject, i. e. we know from the very organizatibn of our bodies, that toe are immortal; that God exists; that there is virtue and vice, and eternity with its conditional rewards. Man, in every age, climate, and continent, is compelled by his very construction and nature to believe these first principles. That which is infinite must not be limited; time must not be confounded with eternity, matter with space, the body with the soul, nor yet material actions from physical causes with God and his special providence. Thus are we taught the im- portance of religion, and, a fortiori, the absolute necessity that this should be pure, holy, and undefiled. Let the teachers of religion, and the teachers in all departments of science, rest assured, says Professor Phelps, of Andover, that they will ap- proximate inevitably, although by opposite roads and methods, to the exact, self-same truths, which are for the very best well- being of the body as well as that of the soul. The former may influence man from general principles to control each specific act, while the latter, through the inflexibility of nature's laws, trace up each specific impression and action to a whole under general laws, and these all, if they be true, must both essentially and minutely agree. The human species can have cognizance not only of single sentient impressions, and of combined sentient impressions, but we also derive a single idea from the sum total of all the im- pressions of each sense. This capacity is believed to belong to man alone, and is consequently a proof of mental power. Now, this is found most beautifully illustrated in those practical gal- vanic arrangements for obtaining a single impression from a mul- titude of separate actions. It is only necessary there to connect all the combined voltaic arrangements, so as to act as a single battery, which will then exhibit action, whether one, a part, or all the separate batteries are excited. It is, moreover, imperatively necessary to assume a mechanism in man, which shall collect the ultimate combinations of the respective senses into one whole, and this is inferred from voltaic laws, and is believed to 14*