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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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RE'FLEX, a. [L. reflexus.]
Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive;
introspective.
The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in
return.
Of, pertaining to, or
produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention
of consciousness.
Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. -- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito- motory. Reflection; the light
reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Yon gray is not the morning's eye, On the depths of death there swims An involuntary movement
produced by reflex action.
Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee. To reflect.
[Obs.] Shak. To bend back; to turn back.
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