A VIEW OF NATURE, IN LETTERS TO A TRAVELLER AMONG THE ALPS. WITH REFLECTIONS ON ATHEISTICAL PHILOSOPHY, NOW EXEMPLIFIED IN FRANCE, BY RICHARD JOSEPH SULIVAN, Esq. F. R. S. AND F. A. S. Mala enim, et impia consuetudo est contra Deos disputandi, sive ex IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. CICERO LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. BECKET, PALL MALL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, AND THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES, THE DUKES OF YORK AND 1794- Lit.comm. IMPORTANCE of the study of nature---this study more successfully pursued by the moderns than, by the ancients---Infinite variety of vegetable and ani- mal nature---different sources of pleasure in this study---ground of the usual arrangement of natural bodies---the same clementary" principles in animals and vegetables--operations of the animal economy common to all animals specific differences--digestion not accompanied by putrefaction---antiseptic virtue of the Gastric fluid---modes of nutrition---Irritation ---Sensibility---Thought---The nervous system the Animal motion not to be explained on mechanical prin- VOL. III. a 2 of |