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Do they really put faith in this delusion? 

 The senses of sight, hearing, and smelling, 

 have been termed, both by physiologists 

 and phrenologists, internal senses, because 

 we do not attribute the sensation to the 

 organs which are supposed to perceive; but 

 surely we do not attribute it to any thing 

 internal. If I am in the country, I see the 

 •distant hills, the nearer meadows and the 

 contiguous trees. I may hear the tolling 

 of a remote parish-bell, the lowing of the 

 herds in the adjacent fields, and the warb- 

 ling of the bird perched on the spray above 

 my head. I may smell the sweet odour of 

 the new mown hay in the adjoining fields, 

 and the fragrance of the rose which I hold 

 in my hand. Yet, in every instance, I at- 

 tribute the sensation to the object which 

 • produces it, whether remote or near. So 

 likewise in touch and taste, I believe the 

 body exciting these sensations, to be where 

 it really is.; yet it must be admitted that 



