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LETTER X.

On the voluntary and involuntary Motions of the Body and its parts; together with their Application to the voluntary and involuntary Motions of the Mind, with its Affections and Thoughts.
My Dear Sir,

My Dear Sir, I am delighted at learning, from your last kind favour, that you feel an interest in the communications which I have lately made to you, respecting the human body; and it is on this ground that I am led to flatter myself with the hope, that I shall not weary you by directing your attention again to the same subject. Will you allow me then to continue my remarks, by extending them to the voluntary and involuntary motions of the body and its parts?

Perhaps you have never heretofore reflected on these motions, so as to make a discovery of the important and edifying instruction which they involve, and yet I am persuaded you agree fully with me, that as the body of man is exclusively the work of a DIVINE