WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



lost in infancy every seeing and hearing 

 brain cell, but by the sense of touch she 

 has become a highly educated woman, 

 versed in the literatures of ancient and of 

 modern languages, and an accomplished 

 authoress as well. 



Yet the sense of touch itself does not 

 count, since a number of animals have a 

 more sensitive touch than we have, but this 

 delicate feeling in them falls so far short 

 of reaching a human consciousness, that 

 were all animals to unite in the attempt, 

 they would still fail to make one ordinary 

 pin. Without the human mind there can 

 be no handicraft. 



It is this bodily sense activating the 

 hand which most reveals what man is and 

 what he can do, for as the ancients said, 

 feeling reaches the heart of being. In 

 comparison, matter now sinks to insignifi- 

 cance. Like all other senses, touch as- 

 cends to the brain by its afferent nerves 

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