221 



it die with, the body, or not? Is it mortal or im- 

 mortal ? Here again we are got into an unknown 

 path. We cannot order our speech by reason of 

 darkness. 



But although we know so little either of the things 

 that are above us, of those that are beneath u 9 

 or of those that surround us on every side, yet it iV 

 to be hoped we know ourselves : and of all, this is 

 the most useful, the most necessary knowledge. But 

 do we truly know ourselves 7 Do we know the- 

 most excellent part of ourselves, our own soul ? 

 That it is a spirit wo know. But what is a spirit 1 

 Here again we are at a full stop. And where is the 

 soul lodged ? In the pineal gland I The whole 

 brain] In the heart ? The blood ? In any siugle 

 part of the body I Or, is it (if any one can under- 

 stand those terms) all in all, and all in every partf 

 How is it united to the body. 1 What is the secret 

 chain, what the bands that couple them together 1 

 Can the wisest of men give a satisfactory answer,, 

 even to these few plain questions ? 



As to the body, we glory in having attained abun- 

 dantly more knowledge than the ancients. By our 

 glasses we have discovered very many things, which- 

 we suppose they were wholly unacquainted with. 

 Bait have we discovered why we perspire three parts 

 in four less, when we sweat, than when we do not 1 

 What a tola! mistake is, it then, to suppose sweat is 



