[4] "The Magazine of The Fine Arts," No. VI, for October 1833. [5] I am not here called upon to vindicate the errors and absurdities which poets and others introduced into mythology. [6] Appendix A. [7] George IV., though the "first gentleman" in England, was guilty of cheating at a horserace.--ED. [8] The above remark is true of the same class of females in this country.--ED. [9] Appendix B. [10] Appendix C. [11] To the reader unaccustomed to inquiries of this kind, it may save trouble to peruse first the brief Summary of the contents of this important chapter, beginning in page 120. [12] Regularity expresses the similarity of parts considered as constituting a whole; and uniformity, the similarity of parts considered separately. [13] Appendix D [14] The common character of these arts has been overlooked. [15] Proportion is here employed, not as expressing an intrinsic relation, as in the beauty of inanimate beings, but as expressing an extrinsic relation to fitness for ends. [16] "The Nervous System, Anatomical and Physiological: in which the Functions of the various Parts of the Brain are, for the first time, assigned." [17] Communicated by the writer to the "Magazine of the Fine Arts," No. 11, for June, 1833. [18] "Human Nature," chap, ix., sec. 13. [19] "Reflexions Critiques sur la Poesie et sur la Peinture." [20] "Reflexions sur la Poetique." [21] "Adventurer," No. 110. [22] Essay on Tragedy. [23] To some it may appear, that the organs and functions of digestion, respiration, and generation, are not involved by this arrangement; but such a notion can originate only in superficial observation. Digestion is a compound function easily reducible to some of the simple ones which have been enumerated. It consists of the motion of the stomach and contiguous parts, of the secretion of a liquid from its internal surface, and of that heat, which is the common result of all action, whether mechanical, vital, or mental, and which is better explained by such motion, than by chymical theories. Similarly compound are respiration and generation. Thus, there is no organ nor function which is not involved by the simple and natural arrangement here sketched. Compound, however, as the organs of digestion, respiration, and generation, are, yet, as they form so important a part of the system, it may be asked, with which of these classes they are most allied. The answer is obvious. All of them consist of tubular vessels of various diameter; and all of them transmit and transmute liquids. Possessing such strong characteristics of the nutritive or vital system, they are evidently most allied to it.