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"When we speak of the connexion between the body and the soul, we are apt at first to think, that it is a single link or act, but this is an insufficient conception. There are as many different modes of connection as there are wants in the soul, and organs, parts and particles of the body. There are as many different modes as there are possible species of contact in the great and the little creation. The soul is connected in one way with the brain, in another with the lungs, in another with the belly, again in another with the skin. To make this clear, recur to the house and its furniture. The inhabitant owns everything contained in it. Upon one piece of furniture he reclines, upon another he sits, at another he writes, upon others he treads; some contain his viands, some delight him with harmonious sounds, and some look down from his walls, and gratify him by arts and proportions; and with all these, and many more, he is connected. Now in each case it is the shape, make, form, or properties whereby the thing serves its purpose, that is the means of his connexion with it. If he sits at his desk, it is because it is such or such a structure, and serves him for read-