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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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omn Crarity andthe clastick force oP the
Ribs cher tall dorn and comprels the
Lungs and Bhuc up che Pmislaries ot che
Nerres. S0 likerrise in the Stomach and
Ciuts, irhen che Concindinat Muscular
libres arc in Action, the Transverse and
Spiral ones are relax dby che precture ot
che acting Pibres uxon che lmissaries ot
the Nerres ot the relax dones; and (0 on
the other Fland, when chole are relaxd
chele are in action, and univertallr in alt
ehe involuntary Motions there is a Mecha-
nical Necessity For the deriration oF che
merrons fuices into che Mulcles emplored
in chele Motions. But in voluntary NO-
tions there neither is nor can be any suct
Mcchanical Necessits, it beins a plaim
Concractiction to their Nature; and there.
Fore voluntarr Mocion is quite contrary
co chre L aWs oF Mechanism: Wre can move
our Elands and Fcet hor and irhien we
please in an Instant, re can bend and un.
vend ein as Wre ill. There is no Mecha-
nical Cause imaginable to force chis ner
vous piice into the Muletes of voluncary
Motion.
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