CHAP. II. 



Of Corporeal Pleasures and Fains. 



13. CiORPOREAL pleasures and pains are, not only those 

 which we receive from the senses as just mentioned, but 

 those that affect the whole frame, as exercise and lassitude, 

 rest after fatigue, incipient sleep, refreshment after long absti- 

 nence, renewed vigour after sound sleep, languor and sickness. 



14. Of the senses five arc commonly reckoned and are 

 well known; but to the pleasures they impart we may add 

 that of the stomach on receiving food of which it had long 

 suffered the privation, and of the fauces when relieved from 

 thirst — these may be called internal senses. 



15. All sensual pleasures were probably at first organic, 

 that is apparently seated in the organs through whose medi- 

 ation they are received, though at present only those of taste, 

 smell and touch, and their [antagonist pains, are deemed to re- 

 side in their respective organs. — But the impressions of vision 

 and of hearing, at present bear no reference to their respec- 

 tive organs, unless excessive or the organs diseased. I say 

 that at present, only those of taste, smell and touch and those 

 arising from the gratification of the internal senses are or- 

 ganic, for the pleasure of vision, was certainly at first organic, 



since 



