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The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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The Effects of Smell on the Brain

The sense of touch, taste and smell perceive only external forms, but not internal forms. The law of the sense of hearing and sight is entirely different from that of the smell, taste and touch. By these senses, the internal forms themselves are apprehended, but not the external forms. For these are modifications and fluxions which affect the organ according to their essential determinations. And immediately the cortical substance and the brain whose form is harmonious shuns whatever is contrary to harmony and seeks what is conformable to it.

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