LETTER V.
On the Bodily Senses of Smelling and Touching, and their Connection with Mental Smell and Touch.
- My Dear Sir,
My Dear Sir, The more I reflect on the bodily senses, which were the subjects of my three last letters to you, so much the more I am struck with astonishment at the DIVINE SKILL manifested in the structure of their organs; and above all, at their admirable uses, both natural and spiritual, both temporal and eternal; insomuch that the wonder of wonders with me is—that mankind, in general, seem to be so little aware of these stupendous proofs of DIVINE MERCY and MERCY, with which they are gifted, and which are every moment calling them, with a loud voice, to the recollection of their DIVINE CREATOR and BENEFACTOR. But the misfortune is, that the sense of DIVINE FAVOURS is not unfrequently lessened amongst men by the very consideration, which ought, above every other, to increase their value, viz. that of their being common, and at the
