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In my last letter I endeavoured to point out some of the more important uses, both natural and spiritual, which you derive from the sense of seeing; and thus to convince you of the immense debt which you owe, in common with every other human being, to the and  of such a sense. Allow me now to call your attention to the four other senses, in their order, viz. hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching.

These senses, like the sense of seeing, have their several organs, as the ear, the tongue and palate, the nostrils, and the skin, all which organs, when explored by anatomical skill, bespeak a wisdom Divine and incomprehensible; compared with which the utmost ingenuity of man is but like the light of a candle compared with the splendour of the sun.