CONTENTS.

THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE,........................................................................page vii
PREFACE OF THE EDITOR OF THE LATIN EDITION,........................................ " xxi
AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY IN SWEDENBORG'S WRITINGS,........................................................................................ " xxiii
AUTHOR'S PREFACE, ............................................................................................. " xxx

Part One.

THE SENSES.

CHAPTER 1.—THE SIMPLE FIBER (n. 1-14),......................................................page 3

Its nature.—The Fibrous System and the Body.—Diseases of the Fibers.—How bodily diseases stem from mental ones, and vice versa. original: "Derivations of Bodily from Mental Diseases, and vice versa."

CHAPTER 2.—THE SENSES (n. 15-23),.............................................................page 8

External Organs of the Senses.—The Sensory Fibers.—How sensations are carried from the external to the internal organs.—The Cortical Glandules Swedenborg's term for the microscopic units of the brain, similar to what we now call neurons., their number, variety, and harmony, and their relation to sensations.—The spiral and the vortex-like movement original: "vortical circumvolution" of sensations in the brain.—Harmony and discord of sensations.—The innermost sensory organ.

CHAPTER 3.—THE INTELLECT AND ACTION (n. 24-34),..................................page 17

The connection between intellect and action.—The first perception.—The force that triggers perception.—The desires derived from it.—Which perceptions are innate and which are learned.—The purely animal knowledge of sense.—The cooperation original: "concurrence" of the soul with the senses.—The more perfect forms are, the more pleasing they are to the senses.

CHAPTER 4.—THE SENSE OF TOUCH (n. 35-38),............................................page 30

The lowest and truly physical original: "corporeal" sense.—On what its perfection depends.—Which cortical glandules correspond to the organs of touch.—How the soul perceives most clearly any change in the entire body, etc.

CHAPTER 5.—THE TASTE (n. 39-42),................................................................page 36

Taste is a higher form of the sense of touch.—What shapes it identifies.—Its organic structures in the tongue.—On what its perfection depends.—How taste is carried to the brain as a common sensory The "sensorium commune," or the central processing area for all senses. immediately by the trigeminal nerve original: "Nerve of the Fifth Pair", etc.

CHAPTER 6.—THE SMELL (n. 43-48),..............................................................page 40

Smell is a still higher form of the sense of touch.—It identifies the even simpler angular forms that are carried through the air.—Touch, taste, and smell perceive the external forms of parts, but not the internal forms as hearing and sight do.—How the common sensory is affected by the sense of smell.—The even purer substances and forms known to the soul, but not detectable by any physical sense.

CHAPTER 7.—THE HEARING (n. 49-67),.........................................................page 46

The organ of this sense.—Also a sense of touch.—What constitutes harmony and disharmony.—Hearing is a more excellent sense than touch, taste, or smell.—The speech of animals original: "brutes" is only physical and material, signaling emotions; the same element exists in human language.—The action of the motor and sensory fibers in hearing.—The restorative and refreshing effects of the—