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cannot have escaped your observation, that the five bodily senses, called seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, are the only doors of your communication with the outward visible world of nature, insomuch that if these doors are removed, or even closed, you would be as insensible as a stone to all the variety of earthly objects by which you are encompassed; and thus, instead of enjoying the splendour, and beauty, and delights of the princely palace, which is given for your habitation here below, you would find yourself a miserable captive in a dark and silent prison, shut out from every sensation of external comfort and enjoyment. You must consequently have noted, that you are indebted to the eye for all the delights, which gain admission through that organ into the mind, and in like manner to the