LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 9 



one stone that he had given to his image the de- 

 sired appearance and, at the same time, found the 

 means of attaching the fifth sense without any more 

 hollowing and scooping. 



But these organs of sense or feeling, being of 

 themselves only instruments of feeling (as the mus- 

 cles of themselves are only instruments of motion), 

 could be of no use, unless they were supplied by 

 some other organ with the power of feeling, i. e. the 

 ability to feel. But he could find no room for any 

 more organs, nor were more necessary ; for he had 

 only to take care that certain of the nerves arising 

 from the brain should be distributed to them ; and 

 his organs of sense were thus at once supplied with 

 the power of perfectly fulfilling their respective 

 offices, by means of a sensibility supplied to them 

 from the brain through these connecting nerves. 

 So, again, the organs of nutrition would have been 

 useless, unless he had taken care that they also 

 were properly supplied, by means of the nerves, 

 with motive power. But here a little careful 

 management was necessary ; for the brain is the 

 seat of the will. And if the organs of nutrition 

 say the heart, for instance had been subjected to 

 the influence of the will ; and if his image, in a fit 



of the sulks, should take it into his head to will to 

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