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Rh are as curious and exquisite for their appearance as they are excellent for use: for the eye receives the finest impressions from things, and gives the finest expressions from the soul. So likewise the ear is the hearing-trumpet of the real body, which would otherwise be deaf to the music of nature; it embraces all the means of reverberation, whether in the free air, or of cheerful voices from household ceiling and walls, or of stately sounds from the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault: in short, both the whole instrumentality and the whole architecture of sound. But the nose is to the real body the prophecy of devices that have not yet entered into arts; full as it is of membranous parterres and vacant aviaries for odors; for hitherto, aromas are but casual visitants; they come and go in brief seasons with the fitful winds, and where is the vessel that can hold them; hence the nose of flesh is deficient in circumstance, and we can only identify it somewhat barbarously as the scent bottle of the real nose. To pass over the other senses, we find that the legs are the outward art of locomotion, from passive to active; from the nails of the toes to the wheel of the knee and the globe of the hip; in short,