8 LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



tion of the organs of taste and smell; and thus 

 having disposed of /our, out of the five senses re- 

 quired, he might be supposed to pause, from 

 suddenly observing that there was yet an imperfec- 

 tion which had escaped his notice : for he would 

 see that the external surface of his image was very 

 unequal, from the many scoopings and hollowings 

 which it had undergone that, though these had 

 been filled up by muscles, &c., they did not fit 

 with sufficient accuracy to make all smooth that 

 some parts were soft, and others hard that some 

 were of one colour, and some of another ; whereas 

 the image, according to his preconceived idea, 

 should have been, as to its external appearance, 

 everywhere even, homogeneous, and soft to the 

 touch. How was this imperfection to be rectified ? 

 Having still the fifth sense to add, he resolved, it 

 may be supposed, to make use of this sense to re- 

 store the image to its originally predetermined 

 external appearance of homogeneous beauty. In- 

 stead, therefore, of making the sense of touch reside 

 in a single (rryan, he spread it over the entire surface 

 of a most delicate and beautiful membrane (the 

 skin) ; and wrapping the image in it, and seeing 

 that it fitted it with perfect accuracy, he would be 

 gratified to find that he had killed two birds with 



