SECT. XIV. 2. PRODUCTION OF IDEAS. 1 1 5 



the Corinthians, diftinguifhes between the pfyche 

 or living fpirit, and the pneuma or reviving fpi- 

 rit. By the words fpirit of animation or fenibrial 

 power, I mean only that animal life, which man- 

 kind poflefies in common with brutes, and in fome 

 degree even with vegetables, and leave the con- 

 fideration of the immortal part of us, which is the 

 object of religion, to thole who treat of revela- 

 tion. 



II. i. OftheSenfe of Touch. 



THE firft idea we become acquainted with, arc 

 thofe of the fenfe of touch ; for the foetus muft ex- 

 perience fome varieties of agitation, and exert fome 

 mufcular action, in the womb ; and may with 

 great probability be fuppofed thus to gain fome 

 ideas of its own figure, of that of the uterus, and 

 of the tenacity of the fluid, that furrounds it, (as 

 appears from the fafts mentioned in the fucceeding 

 Section upon Inftinct.) 



Many of the organs of fenfe are confined to a 

 fmall part of the body, as the noftrils, ear, or eye, 

 whilft the fenfe of touch is diffufed over the whole 

 fkin, but exifts with a more exquifite degree of 

 delicacy at the extremities of the fingers and 

 thumbs, and in the lips. The fenfe of touch is 

 thus very commodioufly difpofed for the purpofe 

 of encompailing fmaller bodies, and for adapting 

 itfelf to the inequalities of larger ones. The figure 

 of fmall bodies feems to be learnt by children by 

 their lips as much as by their fingers ; on which 

 account they put every new object to their mouths, 

 when they are fatiated with food, as well as when 

 they are hungry. And puppies feem to learn their 

 ideas of figure principally by the lips in their mode 

 of play. 



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