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ORGANS OP APPARATUS OF MUSCULAR SENSE. 



205. DENSITY, RESISTANCE, GRAVITY, and the like 

 properties of objects, always represent power, and are 

 distinguishable by the different degrees of power requi- 

 site to oppose or overcome them. 



206. To DISTINGUISH THE DENSITY, etc., of different 

 objects, it will be necessary to construct organs capable 

 of exerting power in various degrees, which shall pro- 

 duce corresponding effects on nerves commencing in the 

 organs and extending to ganglia adapted to produce the 

 appropriate and informing sensations. 



207. A MUSCLE (a piece of lean meat), by contract- 

 ing, is capable of exerting power ; and if the muscle 

 should be properly attached by its extremities to two 

 parts of a framework, connected by a joint, its power 

 could be applied to overcoming density, &c.; then if 

 nerves should commence in every part of it and be 

 differently affected by every degree of contraction, and 

 extend to appropriate ganglia, a complete sensatory ap- 

 paratus would be formed, as follows : 



Apparatus of Muscular Sense, 



Three kinds of Organs. 

 1 , * v 5 



Objects, Muscles, Nerves, Ganglia, Mind. 

 Cause. 234 Sensations. 



208. THE MUSCULAR SENSE, the simplest and least 

 easily deranged, is yet the most useful of the senses, 

 manifesting itself the earliest, being blunted the last, and 

 serving under the most varied circumstances of life. 



209. THE USE OF THE MUSCLES in distinguishing 

 objects is only one, or one form, of the many uses to 

 which they are adapted, and which the muscular sense 

 assists in performing ; its office in regard to objects be- 

 ing superadded or an accident to its prime motory office. 



210. MUSCLES MUST CONTRACT to perform every mo- 



205. What do represent ? 206. How ? 207. How can - perform its office ? 

 208. Comparative use of ? 209 Is there more than one ? 210. Why ? 

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