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we call in the aid of lantern slides or diagrams when 
actual things themselves are not available. Some day 
we shall be able to show you different odours on the 
screen, and I am sorry that I cannot so show you some 
of them to-day. 
Sight, taste, touch, smell, and hearing have all been 
gratified at once from the earliest civilised times in all 
countries. 
Things <<‘ pleasant to the eye and good for food” have 
always been an attraction since the days of Eden, and 
are sure of a ready sale in our markets of to-day. But, 
after all, the primitive senses, noble as they are, are not 
everything. Even our very highest sensual education is 
merely instinct, and instinct is a blind and unreasoning 
expression of animal feeling: ‘‘ Man cannot live by bread 
alone”; ‘‘ Let him who hath two loaves of bread sell 
one and buy flowers of the Narcissus, for bread is food 
for the body, but Narcissus is food for the soul.” Feed 
aman as you will; clothe him in fine linen, purple, and 
gold; give him wine and music and all other luxuries, 
and he will ask for ‘‘ the feast of reason and the flow of 
soul.” He will ask you for brotherly sympathy and 
human fellowship, for ‘‘a temple not made with hands.” 
When we look back a long way in the world’s history, 
we may get a glimpse of those great primeval founda- 
tion stones—the five senses—on which all subsequent 
human intelligence and culture are superimposed. Since 
man first existed on the earth his nose has helped his 
eyes in the selection of his food, and this is a trait 
general to all the higher animals. If you give any of 
the larger apes some edible substance of which he has 
no previous experience, he at once tests it with his nose 
after seeing it, and by the nose—the sense of smell— 
all the animals are very largely guided ; and we ought, 
I think, to cultivate this primitive instinct and be guided 
by it ourselves more keenly than we do. 
