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I say the large possession of the seventh sense, 

 which I believe Irishmen have, and the exercise of 

 it, will do more to alleviate the woes of Ireland, 

 than even the removal of the " melancholy ocean " 

 which surrounds its shores. Still, I cannot 

 scientifically see how we can make more than 

 six senses. I shall however, should time permit, 

 return to this question of a seventh sense, and 

 I shall endeavour to throw out suggestions towards 

 answering the question Is there, or is there not, a 

 magnetic sense ? It is possible that there is, but 

 facts and observations so far, give us no evidence 

 that there is a magnetic sense. 



The six senses that I intend to explain, so far 

 as I can, this evening, are according to the 

 ordinary enumeration, the sense of sight, the sense 

 of hearing, the sense of smell, the sense of taste, 

 and the sense of touch divided into two depart- 

 ments. A hundred years ago, Dr. Thomas Reid, 

 Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University 

 of Glasgow, pointed out that there was a broad 

 distinction between the sense of roughness or of 

 resistance, which was possessed by the hand, and 



