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It is highly satisfactory to me to learn, that you become every day more and more interested in the philosophy of the human body, and that this interest has increased with your perusal of my former letters on the five bodily senses. Encouraged therefore by your partiality for the subject, as well as by its own intrinsic importance, I shall willingly proceed, in compliance with your request, to make some further remarks on what appears to me to be the first and grandest object of philosophical investigation. Allow me then now to call your attention to the two extraordinary, yet ordinary, bodily acts of eating and drinking.

In these acts is exemplified another remarkable case of the effect of custom, in its tendency to render