“Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.”
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The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
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