CH. IV.] CONNECTION OF BODY AND SOUL. 185 



aversions, depend only remotely on the influence of the body 

 on the mind. 



348. When sentient actions are excited in an animal organism, 

 it is sufficient to know that they proceed from the conceptive 

 force (97). Since all conceptions are connected with certain 

 actions (25, 97), the mind acts on the body and exercises an 

 influence on it, which extends to all those of its movements with- 

 out exception that have an origin in conceptions. The free-will 

 movements depend, however, more immediately on free-will (336) . 

 This dependence of the movements of the body on the will is 

 termed the dominion of the soul over the body, (Baumgarten^s 

 * Metaphysics,' § 538), but the actions of the sensational per- 

 ceptions, pleasure and pain, desires and aversions, are not directly 

 or immediately under the power of the soul, although they are 

 altogether produced by its influence. 



349. The animal organism and the soul have a reciprocal 

 connection with each other (345), and since the influence of the 

 body is extended to all the conceptions by means of external 

 impressions on the nerves transmitted to the brain (347, 113), 

 and since also the influence of the soul is extended to all the 

 sentient actions of the body, by means of the impression of the 

 conceptions on the brain (113, 121), it follows, that this reci- 

 procal connection is more intimate and complete than that of 

 another animal with the soul, or of another soul with the 

 animal body. In virtue of this reciprocal connection, the body 

 is also most closely united to its soul in the brain, and this 

 united whole is a sentient [beseeltes] animal {vide §§ 6, 7),^ 

 the idea of which consists in the closest reciprocal connection 

 of a body and a soul. 



350. Those therefore are in error, who, with Stahl, wholly 

 deny the influence of the animal body on its soul ; as also are 

 those who limit that influence to the sensational perceptions, 

 and the feelings of pleasure and pain, and to the desires, 

 aversions, instincts, and passions ; inasmuch as the conceptions 



' The exact meaning of the terras leseelte and unbeseelte is given in the text 

 (§ 605, et seq.), and the two kinds of sentient or beseelte animals defined. A literal 

 translation of the words might have been made in strict accordance with the idiom 

 of the English language ; but the term sentient seems to me to express as fully the 

 author's meaning as besouled would. — Ed. 



