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furnishes special organs of feeling and therewith a volun- 

 tary sense of feeling ; the intestine and chiefly the liver 

 is now the cardinal organ, and will therefore execute 

 the inesmerically percipient functions. 



3593. In the liver the faculty of anticipation and fore- 

 sight, with melancholy, choleric passion, and anger, 

 appear to reside. Encephalic thought is reflected in it. 



The liver is the soul in a state of sleep, the brain is 

 the soul active and awakening. In it the spirit broods 

 unconsciously for years, and then breaks forth fearfully, 

 as capriciousness, tyranny and sorrow, but also as earnest- 

 ness and strength. 



Circumspection and foresight appear to be the thoughts 

 of the Bivalve Mollusca and Snails. 



Gazing upon a Snail, one believes that he finds the 

 prophesying goddess sitting upon the tripod. What 

 majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what 

 earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what 

 firm confidence ! Surely a Snail is an exalted symbol of 

 mind slumbering deeply within itself. 



The old artists must have felt this signification, as in 

 many of their representations they have introduced a 

 Snail. One can hardly think, that in so doing they 

 wished to express such common and lascivious ideas, as 

 are at present manifested openly or secretly by our daily 

 enjoyments. 



3594. The intestine must moreover be concerned with 

 the sense of taste. Taste, however, leads to voracity, 

 gluttony, daintiness, sluggishness and drowsiness. 



3595. Taste in union with the sexual function is the 

 expression of venery or lust. 



This is indicated by the secretion of slime, by the 

 monstrous size too of the sexual organs, and by their 

 androgynism, which enables either individual during 

 copulation to enjoy the delicious feeling, belonging to the 

 male and female, either at once or alternately. Their food 

 also appears to be selected from a feeling of desire. 



Circumspection in feeling, dainty voracity, and immo- 

 derate lust appear to constitute the spiritual character of 

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