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Excerpt from Intellectual Philosophy
1. The body in one sense a part of self. That which each one calls himself embraces more or less in different cases. Considering man as a purely re?ective being self includes only the mind; but considering him as a sensitive and active being, it includes the body as well as the mind, since sensation is manifested in the body and action transmitted through it. Though the body is but the special instrument and medium of the mind in communicating with exterior objects, yet, as a por tion of matter specially organized and appropriated for that purpose, it becomes so animated and pervaded by the spirit, as to seem a part of self. It is not, however, the whole body of whose affections we are conscious, but only the nerves of sensation. But these are so largely distributed through the body, and especially over its surfaces, that nearly all the external acts and internal processes and functions of life affect them.
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