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In my last two letters I sent you an abridgment of my thoughts on the two bodily senses of seeing and hearing, which I call an abridgment, because I feel it impossible, in the compass of a letter, to express to you a hundredth part of what I think on these two stupendous organs, the human eye and ear. For to say nothing of their curious mechanism, which so forcibly proclaims a and, what shall we say of the powers or faculties, with which, as instruments, they are invested; whilst we behold them placed, as it were, in the midst between two worlds, the temporal and eternal, and opening alternately to each, to admit from the former all that is beautiful, harmonious, and delightfal in the Word and the works of , and then to convey it to the latter, viz. the mental eye and ear, where it is again