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lavater’s 
neck which are entwined with the inoft refined 
feelings. The nerve that promotes fuch a pleafing 
fenfe as thrills through every vein has the ftrongeft 
elaflic fprings, adling in concert with the eighth 
clafs, that penetrates the bofom, and affefts the 
heart ; while others, at the ribs and lower parts, 
move in perfect harmony with them in their reci- 
procal impulfe and re-a£tion upon the human frame. 
After having thus explained the feries of nervous 
conductors, we may conceive how that electric 
ftroke is felt and communicated in fuch a manner, 
as no language can exprefs in terms fuited to our 
ideas. 
In another point of view, thofe feats of pleafure, 
which cannot be fo well defcribed as we could wifli, 
we mean the lips, equally difcover the forefight of 
Nature in providing for our daily w'ants, by fixing 
there the tafte that judges the quality of food and 
beverage intended to prolong or comfort life. 
From a chain of circumfiances, partly related, 
might we not infer, whth a degree of reafon, that 
all the impreffions on our bodies are at firft merely 
local, or confined to a particular fpot, wTere, ac-. 
cording as they are received by the organs of fenfe, 
a nervous ruling power communicates them by fub- 
ordinate ramifications iffuing from the centre, like 
fo many different ftrcams which branch out from 
the fame fpring, with a continued mutual intcr- 
courfe to keep up an equal flood, except wTen 
their 
