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and from the brain back again to the organ. Pain 

 is, therefore, not felt in any organ, but in the brain, 

 the seat of the soul. If anaesthesia is produced by 

 chloroform, properly administered, as long as the 

 body is under its influence there can be no pain, for 

 the functions of the brain are suspended, but the 

 soul still presides over the body, though its com- 

 munications are disconnected. The operator is still 

 at headquarters, though the wires are disconnected 

 and there is no communication. 



If any portion of the body be removed, the soul 

 presides over what remains as long as there is life. 

 Upon the amputation of a limb, the action of the 

 soul is not found to be diminished, nor any of its 

 faculties lost. When a man loses both arms and 

 both legs, the soul will preside over what remains, 

 and its sphere of action is limited to the remaining 

 part of the body. It cannot make use of that 

 which is not, or which it has not. If the eyes be 

 shut or the ears stopped, it cannot then see or hear, 

 but remove the obstruction, and it instantly assumes 

 its normal condition. This shows that when any 

 sense or faculty becomes impaired or inactive the 

 body loses that instrumentality without affecting 

 the functions of the soul. 



