símilitude between the man of fine intellectual taste and the bee, may be carried farther; for I do not recollect to have found any example of the former, unaccompanied by a certain delicacy and refinement in the judgments of the palate. Like the bee, which sips only the aroma, and leaves the coarser particles to animals of a less ethereal kind, so the man who posseses a fine perception in those objects which are subjected to the operation of the judgment, rejects the grosser nutriment, which suits the palate of coarser tastes.

Akin to the agreement between intellectual and corporeal taste, is the correspondence I have never failed to observe between mental and corporeal sensibility. Here, indeed, the union is so strong, that to draw the line which separates the sensibilities of the body from those of the mind, would puzzle even the metaphysical acumen of the late Dr. Thomas Brown. Let me instance sensibility to the charm of music, as one of those mental sensibilities, between which and the peculiar construction of the corporeal frame, there exists a very close connexion. A musical ear, as it is called, is of course a mental perception, though acted upon through an external bodily medium. I have always found that in individuals possessing a high relish for music-having that quality in perfection, called a fine ear--there has existed, at the same time, a peculiar sensitiveness, in matters of which the sense of touch takes cognizance; and which must be referred to a peculiarity in the nervous fibre distributed over the body. 1 have never seen a musical person who could draw a worsted thread, or a piece of woolen cloth through the teeth, without a most uncomfortable sensation. No person who has an ear for music can scratch a sized wall with his finger-nail without torture; and I am acquainted with a well-known musician, who, upon one occasion, when a person did this in his presence, became so frantic as to knock down the offender, who was his very intimate acquaintance. For these things I do not pretend to account; I only aver the fact, that fine intellectual taste is always accompanied by a refined judgment of the palate; and that an acute mental sensibility, is inseparable from a fineness in the texture of the frame. These things prove that there is so close a connexion between mind and body, that we are not the ethereal and incorporeal creatures which some subtle philosophers would make us vain enough to believe.

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