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Nose Gate, and Feel Gate. Bunyan clearly was 

 in want of a word here. He uses " feel " in the 

 sense of " touch " ; a designation which to this 

 day is so commonly used, that I can scarcely 

 accuse it of being incorrect. At the same time, 

 the more correct and distinct designation un- 

 doubtedly is, the sense of touch. The late Dr. 

 George Wilson, first Professor of Technology in 

 the University of Edinburgh, published, some time 

 before his death, a beautiful little book under the 

 title of The Five Gateways of Knowledge ; in which 

 he quotes John Bunyan, in the manner I have 

 indicated to you. But I have said six gateways 

 of knowledge, and I must endeavour to justify 

 this saying. I am going to try to prove to you, 

 that we have six senses that if we are to number 

 the senses at all, we must make them six. 



The only census of the senses, so far as I am 

 aware, that ever before made them more than five, 

 was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I 

 presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common 

 sense ; and I believe that the possession of that 

 virtue by my countrymen I speak as an Irishman 



