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manners and the passions of the mind. The pleasures of the 

 other senses, and the arts employed about them, are in lesa 

 repute, as approacliing nearer to sensuality than magnificence. 

 Unguents, perfumes, the furniture of the table, but princi- 

 pally incitements to lust, should rather be censured than 

 taught. And it has been well observed, that while states 

 were in their increase, military arts flourished ; when at 

 their heights, the liberal arts ; but when upon their decline, 

 the arts of luxury. With the arts of pleasure, we join also 

 the jocular arts : for the deception of the senses m-ay be 

 reckoned one of their delights. 



And now, as so many things require to be considered with 

 relation to the human body, viz. the parts, humours, functions, 

 laculties, accidents, &c., since we ought to have an entire 

 doctrine of the body of man, which should comprehend them 

 all ; yet lest arts should be thus too much multiplied, or 

 their ancient limits too much disordered, we receive into the 

 system of medicine, the doctrines of the parts, functions, and 

 humours of the body; respiration, sleep, generation; the 

 foetus, gestation in the womb ; growth, puberty, baldness, 

 fatness, and the like ; though these do not properly belong 

 either to the preservation of health, the cure of diseases, or 

 the prolongation of life, but because the human body is, in 

 every respect, the subject of medicine. But for voluntary 

 motion and sonse, we refer them to the doctrine of the soul 

 as two principal parts thereof And thus we conclude the 

 doctrine of the body, which is but as a tabernacle to the 

 souL 



CHAPTER III. 



Division of the Doctrine of tlie Human Soul into that of the Inspired 

 Essence and the Knowledge of the Sensible or Pi'oduced Soul. 

 Second Division ol the same philosophy into the Doctrine ol the 

 Substance and the Faculties of the Soul. The Use and Objects of 

 the latter. Two Appendices to the Doctrine of the Faculties of the 

 Soul : viz. Natural Divination and Fascination (Mesmerism). The 

 Faculties of the Sensible Soul divided into those of Motion and Sense. 



"VVe now come to the doctrine of the human soul, from 

 whose treasures all other doctrines are derived. It has two 

 p^rts, — the one treating of the rational soul, Avhicb is divine, 



