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Rh Do you know any thing of the contruction of the human frame? If not, it is proper that you hould be told what every child ought to know, that when its admirable economy has been diturbed by intemperance or indolence, I peak not of violent diorders, but of chronical dieaes, it mut be brought into a healthy tate again, by low degrees, and if the functions of life have not been materially injured, regimen, another word for temperance, air, exercie, and a few medicines precribed by perons who have tudied the human body, are the only human means, yet dicovered, of recovering that inetimable bleing, health, that will bear invetigation.

Do you then believe that thee magnetiers, who, by hocus pocus tricks, pretend to work a miracle, are delegated by God, or aited by the olver of all thee kinds of difficulties—the devil.

Do they, when they put to flight, as it is aid, diorders that have baffled the powers of medicine, work in conformity to the light of reaon? or, do they effect thee wonderful cures by upernatural aid?

By a communication, an adept may anwer, with the world of pirits. A noble privilege, it mut be allowed. Some of the ancients mention familiar dæmons, who guarded them from danger by kindly intimating, we cannot gues in what manner, when any danger was nigh; or, pointed out what they ought to undertake. Yet the men who laid claim to this privilege, out of the order of nature, inited that it was the reward, or conequence, of uperiour temperance and piety. But the preent workers of wonders are&ensp;