LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 7 



ceeded, or rather zigzagged ; and, very soon, all his 

 joy would be suddenly turned into consternation 

 by beholding his unhappy automaton all at once 

 break its head against a post, or hop into a river, 

 and vanish beneath the waters. 



Having fished it up from the stream, or 

 mended its broken head, it would now be tolerably 

 clear to him that his new creation was not yet per- 

 fect. He would see that it was absolutely neces- 

 sary to its safety that it should know when its path 

 was obstructed by a post or a pond. This would 

 suggest the idea of the organs of the senses ; being 

 the fifth idea, and completing that series, of which 

 the complex one, represented by the words " ani- 

 mal man," is composed. By the organs of the 

 senses, his object would be, to establish a certain 

 relation between it and the rest of the world to 

 enable it to acquire ideas (by means of the experi- 

 ences of these senses) of whatever was likely to 

 inflict injury or afford pleasure ; that it might seek 

 the one, and avoid the other. 



In considering what senses were necessary, he 

 would find that five were required. Having scooped 

 away another portion of what little of the bony 

 statue yet remained, and so introduced the eye and 

 ear ; and having found proper places for the addi- 



