WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



centric self with the whole world outside 

 of him, and so that world would remain 

 but for these special sense organs, which, 

 it should be particularly noted, are on 

 one side so wholly physical that we can 

 examine them with scalpel and microscope, 

 but they connect at the other end with 

 what is anything but physical, being in- 

 stead wholly psychical. It is not the 

 physical eye, but only the man himself 

 which sees, though without the eye he 

 could not see at all. Here, then, just 

 where each bodily sense reaches his con- 

 sciousness, is the man himself. This is 

 where he is at home, and if we can only 

 make his acquaintance in those private 

 quarters, we will learn more about him 

 than we can anywhere else. Both meta- 

 physics and philosophy have filled the 

 world with outside talk about Man, but 

 for trustworthy information give us the 

 testimony of his five bodily senses. 

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