Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.