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of the understanding, the motives, and the desires and aversions 

 of the will, share in the influence of the body. 



351. Those also are in error, who wholly deny the influence 

 of the soul over its body, as some mechanical physicians ; nor 

 are those less in error, who limit, the power of the soul to the 

 free-will movements, and deny that the involuntary movements 

 are under its influence, for the action of the heart, arteries, 

 stomach, and bowels, are manifestly influenced by it. 



352. Lastly, those are also in error, who would explain 

 sentient actions by the physical and mechanical laws of motion 

 (7, 97), as well as those who would explain them by the laws 

 of other animal forces than the conceptive force, although 

 connected with conceptions. Nevertheless, movements identi- 

 cally the same, may take place without being accompanied by 

 conceptions, and since in this case, they are not sentient actions, 

 but take place independently of the influence of the soul, they 

 can be explained on other principles, yet not by the mechanical 

 and physical laws of motion, but rather by the laws of motion 

 of the animal forces (7). 



