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by Feeling make a Statue in Clay, perfectly like what 
he felt. Our Author adds fomething of Ticklings 
and endeavours to prove, that Imagination has a 
great Share in the Caufe of this Senfation, as well as 
the others ; and thence he falls upon an Account of 
another Senfe, which he brings under this Head; 
which he calls, la Chatouilment de l' Amour, of 
which he gives a florid Definition. 
Tafting is his next Subject, wherein, as in the 
foregoing Chapter, he has drawn together the fcveral 
Sedlions relating to it, as, an Account of the Or- 
gans of Tafte, the Mechanifm of Savours, and the 
manner of their being varied into compound Taftes. 
His Companion here is new ; he fays, Since the Prin- 
ciples of Savours are Salts, both fixed and volatile,, 
that Water, Earth, and Sulphur, ferve to make the 
great Variety, and different Kinds, that are in Tafte* 
juft as Shadows varioufly mingled with Light form 
different Appearances ; not that the Shadow is capable 
of making an Impreftion upon our Organs of Sight, 
but the Light alone; as the Salts alone are, upon our 
Organs of Tafte. He has alio fome Reafoning upon 
the Difference that is in Mens Appetites to fome Eat- 
ables, which were before difagreeable. His Reafon 
is, not that the Organs differ at any time from what 
they always were, but bccaufe the Soul fometimes 
changes her Ideas, even from the fame Impreftions, 
and that therefore there can be no Ideas eflential to 
any Impreftions ; or at leaft, that there are none 
which the Soul cannot change He alfo fays, that 
Imagination is much concerned in the Variation of 
Taftes. 
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