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fphere, that extinguished Sun, thofe defolated fo- 

 litudes, that fugitive family, all the effects of that 

 univerfal ruin of the World, are wholly concen- 

 trated in an infant. There is no one, however, who, 

 on viewing the fmall group of perfonages which 

 furround it, would not exclaim : " There's the 

 Univerfal Deluge !" Such is the nature of the hu- 

 man foul ; fo far from being material, it lays hold 

 only of correfpondencies. The lefs you difplay to 

 it phyfical objects, the more you awaken in it in- 

 tellectual feelings. 



Of the Senfe of Heating. 



Plato calls hearing and feeing the fenfes of the 

 foul. 1 fuppofe he qualifies them particularly by 

 this name, becaufe virion is affe&ed by light, 

 which is not, properly fpeaking, a fubftance; and 

 hearing,, by the modulations of the air, which are 

 not of themfelves bodies. Belides, thefe two fenfes 

 convey to us only the fentiment of correfponden- 

 cies and harmonies, without involving us in mat- 

 ter, as fmelling does, which is affected only by 

 the emanations from bodies, tailing by their flu- 

 idity, and touching by their folidity, by their foft- 

 nefs, by their heat, and by their other phyfical 

 qualities. Though hearing and feeing- be the di- 

 rect fenfes of the foul, we ought nor, however, 



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