their absence.

5. Because the impressions it receives are durable and dependant
on, our will.

6. Because when we eat we receive a certain indefinable and
peculiar impression of happiness originating in instinctive
conscience. When we eat too, we repair our losses and prolong our
lives.

This will be more carefully explained in the chapter we devote to
the pleasures of the table, considered as it has been advanced by
civilization.

SUPREMACY OF MAN.

We were educated in the pleasant faith that of all things that
walk, swim, crawl, or fly, man has the most perfect taste.

This faith is liable to be shaken.

Dr. Gall, relying on I know not what examinations, says there are
many animals with the gustatory apparatus more developed and
extended than man's.

This does not sound well and looks like heresy. Man, jure divino,
king of all nature, for the benefit of whom the world was peopled,
must necessarily be supplied with an organ which places him in
relation to all that is sapid in his subjects.