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 persons make a trade of attending to it. It will be answered:&mdash;"You yourself are occupied upon it all this time." Very true. But it must be admitted that it is in another sense entirely that I am speaking; and if I join the reformers it is solely for the purpose of inducing them to relax their hold.

I am not doing as Vaucauson did with his automaton, but as a physiologist does with the organisation of the human frame; I would study and admire it.

I am acting with regard to it in the spirit which animated a celebrated traveller. He found himself in the midst of a savage tribe. A child had just been born, and a crowd of soothsayers, magicians, and quacks were around it, armed with rings, hooks, and bandages. One said&mdash;"This child will never smell the perfume of a calumet, unless I stretch his nostrils." Another said&mdash;"He will be without the sense of hearing, unless I draw his ears down to his shoulders." A third said&mdash;"He will never see the light of the sun, unless I give his eyes an oblique direction." A fourth said&mdash;"He will never be upright, unless I bend his legs." A fifth said&mdash;"He will not be able to think, unless I press his brain." "Stop!" said the traveller. "Whatever God does, is well done; do not pretend to know more than He; and as He has given organs to this frail creature, allow those organs to develop themselves, to strengthen themselves by exercise, use, experience, and liberty."

God has implanted in mankind, also, all that is