XII.  It  is,  therefore,  exclusively  through  the  legitimacy  of  physiological
recognition,  that  mankind  can  ever  universally  reach  the  legitimate  phi-
losophy of  natural  and  revealed  Religion,  and  fully  recognise  and  appre-
ciate the  indispensable  necessity,  of  practising  all  the  delectable  virtues
inculcated  by  them,  for  the  great  purposes  of  securing  their  temporal  and
eternal  welfare.
XIII.  We  may  well  then  conclude,  that  no  knowledge  is  of  any  utility
to  an  immortal  being,  except  that  which  can  be  recognised  to  be  immedi-
ately derivative  from  Deity,  through  a  direct  series  of  natural  causes,
leading  to  the  development  of  the  total  nature  and  powers  of  the  constitu-
tion of  man.  It  is  through  such  recognition  alone,  that  we  can  reach  the
true  ground  for  philosophising  to  legitimacy,  all  the  knowledge  which  our
faculties  are  empowered  to  reach,  in  our  present  state  of  being.
XIV.  It  is  exclusively  through  such  recognition,  that  all  the  legitimate
physiological  phenomena,  characterizing  the  vitality  of  human  nature,
throuofh  all  its  variety  of  organization  and  harmoniousness  of  operation
in  health,  will  admit  of  easy  explication,  through  legitimate  observation,
bestowed  on  the  various  structures  and  correspondently  various  actions
pertaining  to  it.  They  arc  all  rendered  exclusively  explicable,  through
legitimate  observation,  directed  to  the  powers  of  innervation,  inevitably
operating  creatingly  and  preservingly,  to  the  production  and  preservation
of  all  the  various  organs  compositive  of  the  total  constitution;  and  gov-
erning and  regulating  all  the  variety  of  action  constituting  it  a  beautiful
and  harmonious  whole  system,  of  immortal  vitality,  through  the  sympa-
thetic associations  arising  from  the  beautiful  connexions  established  be-


IV  APPENDIX.
tween  the  centres  of  innervation  and  all  their  subordinate  agents  of  vitality.
