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LETTER XI.

On the Motion of the Human Body, called WALKING; and on the Modes of Bodily Rest, called STANDING and SITTING; with their Application also to corresponding Acts of the Human Mind.
My Dear Sir,

My Dear Sir, I again address you on the subject of your own body, because I am persuaded that your attention cannot be too often called to a piece of mechanism which bears so evidently the marks and characters of a DIVINE ORIGIN; and which, besides, as I have attempted to prove on several former occasions, is replete with such abundant lessons of holy and edifying instruction.

In some of my late communications it has been my endeavour to bring you acquainted with the wonders which are transacted in the inside of your earthly cabinet,—will you allow me now to direct your view more to its outside aspect, whilst you behold it either in the act of moving from place to place, or in the no