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Rh principles of the higher and eternal world rest; and that, in this view, matter may be considered as adding to the completion and perfection of the works of the, since nothing can be said to be in its fulness until it comes into its ultimate, which ultimate is matter. Such an ultimate is the material body of man, and such ultimates, too, are all the organs of bodily sense; and therefore as every ultimate has its use in giving support and completion to the prior and superior principles of which it is the ultimate, we may reasonably conclude, that this is one spiritual and eternal use and benefit of the bodily organs of taste—to administer to the higher organs by adding to their stability and their fulness.

But there is yet another spiritual and eternal use, or benefit, resulting from the organs of bodily taste, and grounded more particularly in the faculty they possess of discriminating the various kinds of meats and drinks, so as to discover what is wholesome to be admitted into the body and what is unwholesome, according to what was hinted at in a former part of this letter.

Allow me then to observe, that, in the above respect, the organs of bodily taste may be, and probably were, intended of the, to operate as continual monitors to the interior and higher organs of mental taste, in regard to their