80 Phrenology. 
chyle or nutritious portion, which is conveyed, as a milky fluid, 
through appropriate vessels to the left subclavian vein, by means 
of which it is poured into the mass of the blood to recruit its 
waste. 
All our senses except feeling are local, and most of our organs 
are double; the eye and the ear, each in pairs, corresponding to 
the double brain, are placed close to that intellectual organ, and 
communicate directly with it; they are the most elevated and 
dignified of the senses, and are worthy of their honorable neigh- 
borhood. The nostrils are also double, while the tongue is sin- 
gle, although composed of two perfectly similar halves. These 
organs of sense are in the descending scale of honor, and their 
communications with the brain are less direct than those of the 
eye and ear; the pleasures we enjoy from them have their seat 
also in the organs themselves, while those of sight and hearing 
are in the mind, and the organ itself is not sensible of the pleas- 
ure. ‘Thus the pleasures of sight and hearing are almost intel- 
lectual. Lastly, the sense of feeling is perceived over all the 
surfaces; it has no particular locality, but varies in intensity with 
the number and rome of the nerves belonging to this sense in 
particular parts. 
The numerous glands existing in many parts of the body for 
the secretion of saliva, of mucus, of milk, of bile, and other things 
are instances of local organs. = lungs are a very remarka- 
an for a specific purpose ; and they, like the 
heart’ ai are 6 required to be in constant action while life continues. 
We have already cited the arteries and veins which are local in 
their respective courses, while the blood which passes through 
them is thus compelled to move in its appointed channels. The 
herves also have been named with the same intention, and in 
many instances they are sent forth in pairs to supply correspond- 
ent double portions of the body. . It is not necessary to cite other 
instances of local organs destined for particular and some of them 
most important purposes, as they will occur on the slightest re- 
flection, and it is thus proved that locality is almost universally 
dourbcteriatic of the structure of the body. 
It would then be strange indeed if there were no organ devoted 
to the mind. What organ can be the residence of the mental 
faculties if the brain is not? Every other has its uses, in general 
but, without mental manifestations, there is no 
use for the brain ; for even the nerves that proceed from it, would 
