the faculty of hearing, but not the organ of hearing. Sensation is a faculty of the brain exercised through the sense organ, for the eye does not see nor the ear hear unless attention is given.
Go a step further. The brain itself is not the primary organ of sense. The soul within is the real person of sense and faculty. The brain is as much an organ of the soul's faculties as the eye is an organ of the brain's faculties.
Physiologically the eye is an organism put forth by the brain that it may sensate rays of light. Likewise the brain and the whole material body are an organism put forth by the soul that it may live in and sensate nature. And this occurs that the soul may have a beginning on the lowest and outward plane, and commence its development. So it is neither the eye that sees, nor the brain, but it is the person, in whom is the faculty of sight, that sees in nature through the instrumentality of brain and eye.
